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

Four Prose Poems

by Samantha Stiers

June 19, 2018

I wrote this letter to explain my withdrawing myself from school

In school, the brief schooling I attended, the benefits of water were endlessly extolled. (Eckhart Tolle, mindfulness, a tripart time, a mermaid time, a time that just was not going to work for the mountains.)

The Open Water

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

by Arthur Sze

June 12, 2018

Peaches redden on branches; in the dark,
I drop the irrigation gate—each month

a woman crosses Havana Bay and, looking

at the open water, reclaims her mother—

The Cathedral Is a Mouth

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

by Maya Sonenberg

June 5, 2018

The great Gothic cathedrals, with their arches, ribs, and vaults, were modeled after trees in the forest, the way trees reach up and their branches intertwine.

A Conjunctions:70 Launch Reading with Madeline Kearin, Maria Lioutaia, Kyra Simone, and Alexandra Kleeman

KGB Bar celebrates the release of Conjunctions’ spring Sanctuary issue

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003