Ploughshares Spring, 1995: Everyday Seductions

by Gary Soto (Editor)

Stories and Poems. Contributors to this issue include: Nin Andrews, Thomas Beller, Ron Block, Michelle Boisseau, Daniel Bourne, Becky Byrkit, Marcus Cafag&ntilda;a, Cathleen Calbert, Thomas Centolella, Nicole Cooley, Robin Cooper-Stone, Susan Dodd, Martín Espada, Edward Falco, Richard Garcia, Dagoberto Gilb, Elizabeth Graver, Corrinne Hales, Jana Harris, Bob Hicok, Peter Marcus, DeLoss McGraw, Jack Myers, Leonard Nathan, Nona Nimnicht, Cornelia Nixon, Suzanne Paola, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Josephine Redlin, Kenneth Rosen, Dixie Salazar, Maureen Seaton, Tim Seibles, Reginald Shepherd, Mark Svenvold, Jon Veinberg

211 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Gary Soto is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry International, and Poetry, which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in the interview series Poets in Person. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. For ITVS, he produced the film “The Pool Party,” which received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Film Excellence. In 1997, because of his advocacy for reading, he was featured as NBC’s Person-of-the-Week. In 1999, he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes. He divides his time between Berkeley, California and his hometown of Fresno.