Ploughshares Winter 2008-2009 Guest-Edited by Jean Valentine

The Winter 2008-2009 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jean Valentine. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.This issue edited by acclaimed poet Jean Valentine (Door in the Mountain, Little Boat) features new fiction from Peter Selgin, Kathleen Hill, and Fan Wu; new poems by Jessica Greenbaum, David Guterson, Robert Wrigley, and Jeffrey Skinner; and a book review by Ploughshares Founding Editor DeWitt Henry.Full Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONJean ValentineFICTION"y = mx+b," by Andrew Foster Altschul"Who Occupies this House," by Kathleen Hill"The Bones of Love," by Peter Selgin"Salt," by Megan Staffel"The Next A Story with Chorus," by Valerie Vogrin"The Taste of Life," by Fan WuPOETRY byStephen AckermanDick AllenKeith AlthausBeth BachmannHadara Bar-NadavJose Perez BeduyaReginald Dwayne BettsDeborah BogenSusan BrianteAshley CappsCarrie CauseyAdam ClayTerese CoeCarolina ConroyCaroline ConwayEduardo C. CorralDaniel CoudrietWende CrowDiana Marie DelgadoBen DollerSandra DollerDenise DuhamelMeghan L. DunnTarfia FaizullahAmanda FieldRebecca Morgan FrankBeatrix GatesRoss GayCarmen Gimenez SmithJessica GreenbaumDavid GutersonGail HanlonJustin Hardeckerfrancine j. harrisSuzanne HeydScott HightowerAilish HopperJ. L. JacobsFady JoudahGeorge KalogerisJoshua KryahLaurie LamonShara LessleyNina LindsayColleen LookingbillAlessandra LynchKaisa Ullsvik MillerMiguel MurphyAmanda NadelbergAimee NezhukumatathilLinnea OgdenDzvinia OrlowskySue OwenC. E. PerryDeborah PoeKevin PruferMichael RobinsRobyn SarahJeffrey SkinnerKenneth StevenL. J. SyskoRawdon TomlinsonJennifer TsengJonathan WeinertSimone WhiteRobert WrigleyMande ZeccaEDITOR PROFILE byAmy NewmanBOOKSHELFAndrea Cohen Meaning a Cloud, by J. W. MarshallDeWitt Henry The Thing On the Search for Authenticity, by Richard ToddChristina Pugh The Art of the Poetic Line, by James LongenbachLaura van der Berg Bang Crunch, by Neil Smith