Contributors' Notes

EDITORIAL BOARD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor

Fanny Howe

Editorial Staff

David Gullette

Philip Schultz

Jane Shore

Ellen Wilbur

Contributing Editors

James Randall

Art Director

David Omar White

CONTRIBUTORS

NASEER ARURI (who supplied the literal translation of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry) is Visiting Professor at the University of Kuwait and Chairman of the Political Science Department, Southeastern Massachusetts University.

RUSSELL BANKS is the co-founder and co-editor of
Lillabulero (soon concluding publication with Number 14) and the Lillabulero Press, and author of three novels, a book of poems, and many distinguished short stories. The story here is from a collection called
Searching for Survivors. Other stories will appear in upcoming issues of
Fiction, Partisan Review and
TriQuarterly.

MICHELE BIRCH has published poetry in many magazines, lives in Missoula, Montana, and coordinates the Poetry in the Schools Program there.

DOUGLAS BLAZAK lives in California, is finishing a book-length manuscript entitled
Exercises in Memorizing Myself, has a chapbook,
Lethal Paper, forthcoming from The Stone Press, and has been writing reviews for
Poetry.

RICHARD CECIL "owes all to his beautiful wife, Maura Stanton." His poems have appeared in Arthur Vogelsang's
Ark River Review and other places. He is currently working as a chauffeur in Richmond, Va.

EILEAN NI CHIULLEANAIN was born in 1942 in Cork, Ireland, educated University College Cork and Lady Margaret Hall Oxford, and has been lecturing in Trinity College Dublin since 1966. She won the
Irish Times Poetry Award in 1966, the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize in 1973. Her first collection,
Acts and Monuments, was published in 1973.

GEOFFREY CLARK teaches at Roger Williams College, was cited for a distinctive short story (which originally appeared in
Ploughshares 1/2) in
Best American Short Stories of 1973, has a novel,
Clumsy Partners, forthcoming from Baron Publishing Co. this May, and will be a contributing editor for
Ploughshares 2/2.

KIP CROSBY has a novel,
Run/Ride, just out in paperback. His reviews have appeared in
The Boston Review and
The Boston Phoenix, and he is currently working on a book of stories.

PETER DAVISON is Director of The Atlantic Monthly Press. His autobiography,
Half Remembered, appeared last year, and the poems here will be included in
Collected Poems, scheduled for this April.

MAHMOUD DARWISH (b. 1932) is a Palestinian poet. Professor Emil Nakhleh (Mt. St. Mary's College) considers Darwish to be "the main exponent of the Palestine literature of resistence in the sixties."
Leaves of the Olive Tree (Awraq al-Zaytun), Haifa, 1964;
End of the Night (Akhir al-Layl), Akka-Israel, 1967, are his two major works of poetry.

MADELINE DEFREES, like the Blue Nun in her poem (
American Review #18), has just pulled the cord and landed in Missoula, Montana, where she teaches creative writing at the University. She is writing fiction again and will have a collection of poems,
Domesticating Two Landscapes, from Braziller in 1975.

WILLIAM DICKEY is the author of
Of The Festivities (Yale Younger Poets Series),
House of Interpreters, and
More Under Saturn (Wesleyan), and Professor of English at San Francisco State College.

CALVIN FORBES is teaching at Tufts. His book,
Blue Monday, is forthcoming from the Wesleyan University Press, and includes the poem here: ©1974 by Calvin Forbes.

DAVID GULLETTE teaches at Simmons College, is an editor of
Ploughshares, and active in the local theater (he recently played Macbeth at the Loeb).

PAUL HANNIGAN, one of the Boston area's most quietly remarkable writers, has been known mainly for his poetry (
Laughing, The Carnation). We're proud to present this major debut of his fiction.

EDWARD HARKNESS, a native of Seattle, just received his MFA from the University of Montana and is poet-in-residence for the Montana Public Schools.

BOBBIE LOUISE HAWKINS has had stories in
Fiction, The World, Writing 12, Open Reading, Fits and
Fire Exit, and poems in a number of small magazines and two anthologies.
Sixteen Poems is forthcoming from the Arif Press, Berkeley, and a pamphlet,
Own Your Body, from Black Sparrow.

SUSAN HOWE has poems forthcoming in
Fire Exit and
Telephone; the Buffalo Press is publishing a pamphlet, and she has shown word drawings at the Kornblee Gallery and at the Paley and Lowe Gallery in New York.

JON JACKSON has published short fiction in little magazines, is editor of the forthcoming
New Fiction Journal and currently Managing Editor of
The Iowa Review.

ROBERT L. JONES has taught at Western Michigan University, published widely, been twice anthologized, and is now completing a book-length manuscript.

ROBERT KAVEN lives and writes in Arlington, Mass.

MAXINE KUMIN is the author of four books of poetry.
The Abduction, her third novel, and
Up Country, her fourth book of poems (for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), are her most recent books.

JACK MARSHALL lives in San Francisco, has two books of poetry,
Bearings (Harper & Row),
Bits of Thirst (private ed.) and a new manuscript,
Arriving On The Playing Fields of Paradise. He has taught at the Iowa Workshop and is now teaching at the Extension of San Francisco State College.

MARGE PIERCY has a new novel,
Small Changes (Doubleday), and a collection of poetry
To Be Of Use (Doubleday). Her two previous novels are
Going Down Fast and
Dance The Eagle To Sleep, and books of poetry,
Breaking Camp and
Hard Loving, all available in paperback. She lives in Wellfleet, Mass.

PEGGY RIZZA is studying at the Harvard Divinity School, and has had poems in
Madamoiselle, Chicago Review, Ten American Poets and others.

HENRY H. ROTH has published a substantial and varied body of fiction in a
lot of places. Other stories from his Cruz cycle have appeared in
The Boston Review, December, Works in Progress, The Little Magazine and
The Remington Review. A chapbook of five Cruz pieces is forthcoming from the Lillabulero Press.

CARL SENNA edited
Parachute Shop Blues and Other Poems of New Orleans (1972, Xavier U. of La.) and is preparing two volumes of Palestinian poetry in English.

BARRY SPACKS teaches at M.I.T. and is the author of two novels,
The Sophomore and
Orphans, and two books or poetry,
The Company of Children and
Something Human.

KATHLEEN SPIVACK has just published her first collection of poems,
Flying Inland (Doubleday) and has another one forthcoming.

ARTHUR VOGELSANG has had work in
The Iowa Review, Kansas Quarterly, New York Quarterly and others; he co-edits
The Ark River Review (see esp. Vol 2, No. 3, featuring Albert Goldbarth, Michael Ryan, James Tate), lives in Haverford, Pa. and has a book-length manuscript looking for a publisher.

DAVID OMAR WHITE - has just published
The Symphony Sketchbook (available at your local bookstore or for $6.50 from Ploughshares, Inc.) from which this folio was chosen. ©1974 by David Omar White.