Ploughshares Spring 1996 Poems and Stories Edited by Marilyn Hacker

Contributors to this issue include: Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Rane Arroyo, Alison Brackenbury, Melissa Cannon, Alfred Corn, Brian Komei Dempster, Tory Dent, Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Martín Espada, U. A. Fanthorpe, Julie Fay, Anne Finger, Catherine Gammon, Diana García, Mary Gordon, Arthur Gregor, Judith Hall, Marie-Geneviève Havel, John R. Keene, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Adrian C. Louis, Khaled Mattawa, Stephen McLeod, Constance Merritt, Alicia Ostriker, Carl Phillips, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Hilda Raz, Boyer Rickel, Aleida Rodríguez, Carol Rumens, Grace Schulman, Maureen Seaton, Reginald Shepherd, Edmund White