Contributors

Arthur Sze

Contributor History

The String Diamond, Conjunctions:26
Earthshine, Conjunctions:33
Quipu, Conjunctions:35
The Double Helix, Conjunctions:44
After Completion, Conjunctions:49
Available Light, Conjunctions:54
The Immediacy of Heat, Conjunctions:59
Water Calligraphy, Conjunctions:62
The Open Water, Conjunctions:70
The Open Water — A Selected Text from Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue, Online 06-12-2018
Acequias as Quipus, Quipus as Poems, Conjunctions:73

Biography

Arthur Sze is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Sight Lines (Copper Canyon), which won the 2019 National Book Award. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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In Print

Conjunctions:75

Dispatches from Solitude

Fall 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Hex

by Shane McCrae

January 11, 2021

One’s opportunities to be unhappy are

Unlimited. Or limited, but only by

One’s own imagination, which is powerful

But fragile, is defenseless, but is limited

Only by things unseen. As Bark Psychosis did it

Three Poems

by Maxine Chernoff

January 4, 2021

As life encroaches on the dreaming
bedpost, you remember

a chip of ice you found in river
sludge, its sheen a mute witness

to increments of change
as lens and pure belief.

Wonder Spot

by Gregg Williard

December 17, 2020

Even if we do have a self, all many of us want is to still the music, for a time. Transcend that individual identity, shuck off that convict walk of a mortal coil, to make a new beginning of a pulled-out piece of TV antenna with the glued-on plastic bead. To try and fool my parents and everybody else that I hadn’t gone and broken something in the house, again. That I could save it, fix it, we could fix it, make it new. Trying to quench this thirst for annihilation with the secret machine. Alcohol, sex, love and work wrote the shanties of self before. I lost those full- throated lines. So, I walked the meditation labyrinths. And studied bugs. In silence. Alone.