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:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Three Poems

by Laura Kolbe

March 31, 2020

in the pharmacy of the child
one used a hopscotch stone
a jacket zipper one’s tongue
the sharper tongue of a friend
anything to get one’s soft skin back

Cut

by Paul Lisicky

March 17, 2020

1.

Because he could picture himself curled up on the shelf of the refrigerator between the bread and the light.

2.

Because he stared up at the sprinkler attachment and thought of it as a metal flower.

The One Who Takes Your Name

by David Bajo

March 10, 2020

Mears takes your name. As soon as you say it, he speaks it in quick echo, and it is now his and no longer yours. We don’t know what he does with it or what it does for him, but we do know what happens to those he pilfers.