Contributors

Mark Irwin

Contributor History

Two Poems, Online 12-06-2007
Four Poems , Online 08-11-2015
Six Poems, Conjunctions:68

Biography

Mark Irwin’s eighth collection of poetry, American Urn: New & Selected Poems (1987–2014) was published in 2015. Large White House Speaking appeared from New Issues in spring of 2013. He has also translated two volumes of poetry. Recognition for his work includes The Nation / Discovery Award, two Colorado Book Awards, four Pushcart Prizes, the James Wright Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Fulbright, Lilly, NEA, and Wurlitzer Foundations. He is an associate professor in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles and Colorado.

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Transfer

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

by Laura van den Berg

November 15, 2018

After the sudden death of my employer, I was tasked with overseeing the transfer of his personal library. The books would travel from his studio in New York City to an arts foundation in Italy, where my employer had once enjoyed a long and productive stay, many years in the past.

The Malingerers

by Kristine Ong Muslim

November 13, 2018

8:00 p.m. in this perpetual night shift, and we talk again to the person inside the photo booth, you know, that one photo booth that tunnels all the way down—or up, depending on where you are—to that familiar place where all afterlife and underworld mythologies owe their artifice, the predictability of salvation they purport to deliver.

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.