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Heather Altfeld

Contributor History

Obituary for Dead Languages, Conjunctions:70

Biography

Heather Altfeld is a poet and essayist. Her first book of poetry, The Disappearing Theatre, won the Poets at Work Book Prize. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2017 Robert H. Winner Award and the 2015 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She teaches in the Honors Program at California State University, Chico.

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Four Poems

by Jessica Grim

September 18, 2018

And in having “lost” a person twenty
years back as if out in these woods as if
looking will find will be
found

The Orams

by Janice Obuchowski

September 11, 2018

The Oram brothers live up the mountain. Head east on the main road until it crosses the river and forks. Take the fork leading into the woods. Take the road less traveled. Don’t pat yourself on the back for your poet jokes. That is a false poem, and that poet knew it.

Curios

by Michael Parrish Lee

September 4, 2018

The skin is useful for allowing Heather to draw close to other products, to trade touches that result in pleasure, tickles, irritation, and rashes that blister and peel away. Heather’s internal units archive the glistening faces of other products. She wonders how they keep themselves so smooth, so lifelike.