Ploughshares Spring 2005 Guest-Edited by Martin Espada

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The Spring 2005 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Martin Espada. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Guest-edited by noted poet Martin Espada, the Spring 2005 issue of Ploughshares contains prose and poetry by acclaimed authors including Karen Bender, Donald Hall, Yusef Komunyakaa, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, and Adrienne Rich. In his Introduction to the issue, Espada discusses the notion that poetry is dead in America: "Yet we are also a republic of poets, and a nation of storytellers…There are more good poems and stories being produced, and consumed — nay, devoured — in this country than ever before. If this is a funeral, then it's a jazz funeral." Full Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Martin Espada EDITOR PROFILE Cesar A. Salgado FICTION "Run Run Run Run Run Run Run Away," by Melissa Bank "Mother," by Quang Bao "Refund," by Karen E. Bender "Border," Alyson Hagy "The Great Cheese," by Luke Salisbury "Sleepwalk," by Valerie Sayers NONFICTION "Don't Rub Your Eyes," by Doug Anderson "Instead Of," by Ira Wood POETRY Jack Agueros Nin Andrews Naomi Ayala Daniel Berrigan Richard Blanco Michelle Boisseau Kevin Bowen Rafael Campo Cyrus Cassells Nan Cohen Robert Cording Robert Creeley Theordore Deppe Richard Garcia Stephen Gibson Aracelis Girmay Eugene Gloria Donald Hall Sam Hamill Nathalie Handal Myronn Hardy David Hernandez Bob Hicok Al Hudgins Colette Inez Yusef Komunyakaa Melissa Kwasny Adrian C. Louis Joshua McKinney David Mura John Murillo Joan Murray Pablo Neruda D. Nurkse Sharon Olds Ishle Yi Park Marge Piercy Dannye Romine Powell Leroy Quintana Adrienne Rich Eric Paul Shaffer R. T. Smith Gary Soto Gerald Stern Lidia Torres Lewis Turco Chase Twichell David Williams EDITORS' SHELF