The Spring 2010 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Elizabeth Strout. This issue of Ploughshares features fiction by Richard Bausch, Lisa Cupolo, Mary Gordon, Amy Hempel, Carol Keeley, Marjorie Kemper, Scott Nadelson, Joyce Carol Oates, E. V. Slate, and Kathryn Staley as well as poetry by Amy Beeder, Dan Bellm, Justin Bigos, and others. The volume also includes a profile of Strout, an introduction by Strout, as well as book reviews and more.

Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION

Elizabeth Strout

FICTION

Richard Bausch, "We Belong Together"

Lisa Cupolo, "Long Division"

Mary Gordon, "Ars Longa"

Amy Hempel, "Greed"

Carol Keeley, "Cremains"

Marjorie Kemper, "A Memo from Your Temp"

Scott Nadelson, "Dolph Schayes's Broken Arm"

Joyce Carol Oates, "Distance"

E. V. Slate, "The Sailor"

Kathryn Staley, "Marty"

POETRY by

Amy Beeder

Dan Bellm

Justin Bigos

Paula Bohince

Cathy Smith Bowers

Ha Kiet Chau

Bruce Cohen

Michael Collier

Carol V. Davis

Jehanne Dubrow

Robert Farnsworth

Stephen Gibson

Doreen Gildroy

Mary Gordon

Bob Hicok

Edward Hirsch

David Kirby

Mark Kraushaar

Dana Levin

Bridget Lowe

Jynne Dilling Martin

Michael Milburn

James Thomas Miller

Roger Mitchell

Honor Moore

Amy Newman

D. Nurkse

Rebecca Okrent

Linda Pastan

Beth Woodcome Platow

Katha Pollitt

Chelsea Rathburn

Eric Rawson

Jay Rogoff

Nicholas Samaras

Austin Segrest

Alan Shapiro

Faith Shearin

Charlie Smith

Jeffrey Thomson

ABOUT ELIZABETH STROUT

A Profile by Ladette Randolph

MISC.

Antonya Nelson

Avocation: A Plan B Essay

BOOKSHELF

Akshay Ahuja reviews "The Geometry of God," by Uzma Aslam Khan

Fady Joudah reviews "Restoration: Poems," by Christina Pugh

Michael Morse reviews "The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song," by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Laura van den Berg reviews "All That Work and Still No Boys," Kathryn Ma