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:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Sequentials

by Colin Fleming

August 14, 2018

The coffee from yesterday warmed up and left in the microwave, the late-December sky two hours before the sun comes up outside of smudgy windows. Sitting. The desk. The bed. The bed the desk. It’s funny the things we hold on to, for no particular reason, or no good reason.

Six Poems

by Jessica Reed

July 31, 2018

Perhaps we should begin in extreme heat
              or intemperate ice,                  in salt solutions,
              in drastic acid or radical alkaline,         in heavy metals
or in toxic waste—                    wherever life seems improbable

Done to Scale

by Michael Harris Cohen

July 24, 2018

First, an unsteady tree of clothing inside the door: the coat rack, heaped with jackets, scarfs and furs, most torn, buttons missing, some stained, all rarely worn as few ever go out—for what is outside the house but another house?