Contributors

Geoffrey O’Brien

Contributor History

Two Poems, Conjunctions:42
A History of Religions, Conjunctions:46
Changeable Hieroglyphics (Other Traditions, 2000, and Selected Prose, 2004), Conjunctions:49

Biography

Geoffrey O‘Brien’s poetry has been collected in Red Sky Café and A View of Buildings and Water (both Salt). His books of prose include Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of my Ears, The Browser’s Ecstasy (both Counterpoint), and The Phantom Empire (Norton).

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In Print

Conjunctions:71

A Cabinet of Curiosity

Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Two Poems

by Rae Armantrout

December 11, 2018

Cresting the fence, each leaf
sharply particular, edgy, nearly
identical to its kin.

On the Floor, Beside the Bed

by Peter Orner

December 4, 2018

I read somewhere that we brood when we’re alone, we act when we’re together. As in act in a play. But she wasn’t acting, at least she didn’t know she was acting. Or maybe she was a far better actor than he was.

The Fisherman Bombardier of Naval Station Norfolk: A Performance in Four Generations, Three Races, and Too Many Genders to Name

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by Quintan Ana Wikswo

November 29, 2018

In this mariner’s damp the lichen sprouts, or rather creeps, in the manner molds and kisses do, prurient. Slightly closer then farther toward and away from their undisclosed destination. Investigating, guarded, but unwilling to cease from exploration.