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Kelsey Peterson

Contributor History

The Unsent Letters of Blaise and Jacqueline Pascal, Conjunctions:71

Biography

Kelsey Peterson is assistant teaching professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Olin Fellow. She lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, with her husband. Her contribution to Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity marks her first appearance in print and was awarded the 2019 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

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Conjunctions:71

A Cabinet of Curiosity

Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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In the Permanent Collection

by Mary-Kim Arnold

March 19, 2019

Do this in memory of my mother

and of my mother’s mother

Here is this lacquered box (Fig. 100.5) inlaid

with their blood

Nietzsche at Night

by Meredith Stricker

March 12, 2019

after collapsing at the plaza fountain in Turin Nietzsche gave up
coherent speech and stayed alive somewhere else for almost twelve years
his unmapped terrain resembled a canvas painted black in successive
luminous opacities of backlit abyss, if he turned on a television
this is what he saw, if he closed his eyes, if he looked out the window
again unshielded night

The Page Turner

by Tova Reich

March 5, 2019

For once they all agreed, it would be the concert of the season, the return of the prodigy son. The Jerusalem music scene was in heat—survivors, empty seat fillers, remnants planted on their subscriptions, but from the neck up, in brainpans that went on ticking, still the strictest standards, the highest expectations.