Ploughshares Winter 198 Volume 14 Number 1 Poetry and Fiction

Maxine Kumin edited this journal containing stories and poems by John Balaban, Robin Becker, Philip Booth, Marilyn Chin, Stephen Corey, Starkey Flythe Jr., Erica Funkhouser, Celia Gilbert, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Hall, Charles O. Hartman, Mary Hedin, Tony Hoagland, Annette Williams Jaffee, Susanna Kaysen, Jane Kenyon, Caroline Knox, Margo Lockwood, Gail Mazur, Howard Nemerov, Joyce Carol Oates, Carole Oles, Alicia Ostriker, Joyce Peseroff, David Ray, George Starbuck, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Ruth Whitman, and more.  The cover painting is "Aspen Leaves and Pine Branch After Rain" (detail) by David M. Carroll.

Joyce Carol Oates contributed a short story entitled, "Geese."

ISSN 0048-4474