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Dan Bellm

Dan Bellm is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. His third book of poetry, Practice (Sixteen Rivers, 2008), won a California Book Award and was named one of the year’s top ten poetry books by The Virginia Quarterly Review. He teaches literary translation online for New York University.

John Biguenet

John Biguenet, an editor of the New Orleans Review, teaches at Loyola University. He has recently published poetry, translations, and criticism in The Georgia Review, North American Review, Poetry NOW, and Translation Review.

Lee Harlin Bahan

Lee Harlin Bahan teaches creative writing at Indiana University. Poems and translations of poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in The Laurel Review, The Reaper, The Cape Rock, Blue Unicorn, Crab Creek Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. Her first chapbook, Migration Solo, was published in early 1989 by The Writers’ Center Press of Indianapolis.  

John Balaban

John Balaban is the author of thirteen books of poetry, prose, and translation, which have won the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Poetry Selection, a National Poetry Series selection, and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award.

Ralph Angel

Ralph Angel’s Neither World received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. His third and most recent collection, Twice Removed, is available from Sarabande Books. A fourth collection, Exceptions and Melancholies, as well as his translation of Federico García Lorca’s Poema del Cante Jondo, are forthcoming from Sarabande in 2006.

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Winter 1985

International Writing Issue An issue of Ploughshares from Winter 1985, guest-edited by Stratis Haviaras. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This classic issue, guest-edited by poet Stratis Haviaras, features international writing by a number of world masters, including Italo Calvino,…

The Ploughshares Round-Down: Do White Male Editors Only Publish White Male Books?

The Ploughshares Round-Down: Do White Male Editors Only Publish White Male Books?

For most of the nonfiction books I sell, the editors I’m selling to have a lot of objective information on hand to guess at a title’s potential success: the author’s Twitter following, other books on the same subject, other books by the same author, the popularity of magazine articles on the same subject, and so…

The Ploughshares Round-Down: Is It True You Can’t Make Any Money Writing Books?

The Ploughshares Round-Down: Is It True You Can’t Make Any Money Writing Books?

When I was making the switch last year from being an editor to being an agent, I heard from older agents that I was making a huge mistake. Advances are shrinking, they said. Midlist authors are going without contracts, and everybody is self-publishing. The whole industry is falling apart! One suggested I should find a…