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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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Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Days of Heaven

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

by A. D. Jameson

November 8, 2018

A grown-up man not unlike me is trying to coax a struggling child into a box. That’s badly phrased and only a single sentence in we are in need of starting over.

From It Was Over There by That Place

by Diane Glancy

November 6, 2018

There were parts I recognized.

I saw by night a man riding a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees in the bottom and behind him were red horses, sorrel and white. My Lord what are these?

Why Brother Stayed Away

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

by Ann Beattie

November 1, 2018

The moment had come to see if it was true that Grumpa had a collection of ties lined with pictures of what her brother called “naughty ladies.”