Eleanor Rand Wilner

Dec 15, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Eleanor Rand Wilner

At first a silhouette on the horizon, then turning solid, like Schiller coming up the path to meet the adorable sisters, and they, pretending not to watch, their hearts, all the time, pounding, driven by the same spring force (that would tear them apart), the same force that drives the salmon upriver, against the current, the odds, back to the home pool, even as the autumn mind, in spite of itself, turns backward, with the same feverish glow as autumn gives to the summer’s leaves, a deceptive...

Oct 4, 2023 | pshares.org | Eleanor Rand Wilner |Dan Wakefield |Jess Row |Sinan Antoon

The Spring 2009 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Eleanor Wilner. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This issue, edited by prize-winning poet Eleanor Wilner, author of The Girl with Bees in Her Hair, features new work from Maxine Kumin, Jess Row, Terrance Hayes, Alicia Ostriker, Ilya Kaminsky, and many other distinguished poets and writers.