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:72

Nocturnals

Spring 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Bamiyan

by Elizabeth Robinson

July 16, 2019

She wanders aimlessly through age, age
being a nutrient that washes from the cliff face
into the soil.

Absence a rhythm in the daily round, rows
carved into furrows in the ground or the folds
of the robe, not planted with seed.

Ghost Child

by S. P. Tenhoff

July 9, 2019

He has already, over the course of months, designed his own sanctuary, his own adventure. It has yet to be built, but it will be an ordinary house, except for the cellar, where a secret tunnel leads far away into deep woods, to his real home, enormous and impregnable and peopled by machines to take care of all his needs.

Credenza

by Maureen Howard
Introduction by Joanna Scott

July 2, 2019

We sipped a fumé blanc, much too good for us. Elsa, quite content with a weak strain of iced tea, happy to be here at all. We had not known from lively e-mails and upbeat telephone chats that her persistent cough had taken a turn to the prospect of dying.

A Reading by Peter Orner

Monday, October 28, 2019

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm