Ploughshares Winter 1995-96: Stories and Poems

by Mark Strand (Editor)

Contributors to this issue include: Lee K. Abbott, Nin Andrews, Jennifer Ashton, Judith Berke, Gina Berriault, Teresa Cader, Robert Cohen, Laura Conklin, Wyn Cooper, Janet Desaulniers, Kathy Fagan, James Finnegan, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, David Greenberg, Linda Gregerson, Allen Grossman, Beth Gylys, Daniel Halpern, Edward Hardy, Edward Hirsch, Patricia Hooper, Gray Jacobik, Nicholas Kahn, David Lehman, Philip Levine, Timothy Liu, Susan Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Jacqueline Osherow, Stephen Sandy, Lisa Sapinkopf, Richard Selesnick, Charles Simic, Greg Simon, Ronald Wallace, Michael Waters, Heather White, Michael White, Charles Wright, Oksana Zabuzhko

225 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1995

About the author

Mark Strand was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. He was a professor of English at Columbia University and also taught at numerous other colleges and universities.

Strand also wrote children's books and art criticism, helped edit several poetry anthologies and translated Spanish poet Rafael Alberti.

He is survived by a son, a daughter and a sister.