Ploughshares Spring 1996: Poems and Stories

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

217 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 1996

About the author

Marilyn Hacker is an American poet, translator, critic, and professor of English.

Her books of poetry include Presentation Piece (1974), which won the National Book Award, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Going Back to the River (1990). In 2009, Hacker won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of Tales of A Severed Head by Rachida Madani.