Contributors

Lance Olsen

Contributor History

Lessness, Conjunctions:51
Table of Contents, Conjunctions:59
Dreamlives of Debris, Conjunctions:62
Blue: a chair is a very difficult object, Conjunctions:68
when it happens to you : little white commas — An Excerpt from My Red Heaven, Online 02-20-2018
~~We Held Hands~~, Conjunctions:73

Biography

Lance Olsen is the author of more than twenty-five books of and about innovative writing, including the novels Dreamlives of Debris (Dzanc) and My Red Heaven (both Dzanc). A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize, D.A.A.D. Artist-in-Berlin Residency, N.E.A. Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize recipient, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he teaches experimental narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.

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In Print

Conjunctions:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Three Poems

by Laura Kolbe

March 31, 2020

in the pharmacy of the child
one used a hopscotch stone
a jacket zipper one’s tongue
the sharper tongue of a friend
anything to get one’s soft skin back

Cut

by Paul Lisicky

March 17, 2020

1.

Because he could picture himself curled up on the shelf of the refrigerator between the bread and the light.

2.

Because he stared up at the sprinkler attachment and thought of it as a metal flower.

The One Who Takes Your Name

by David Bajo

March 10, 2020

Mears takes your name. As soon as you say it, he speaks it in quick echo, and it is now his and no longer yours. We don’t know what he does with it or what it does for him, but we do know what happens to those he pilfers.