Contributors

Mary Jo Bang

Contributor History

Two Poems, Conjunctions:51
Four Poems, Online 09-19-2017
Four Boxes of Everything, Conjunctions:70

Biography

Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including Louise in Love (Grove), A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy (both Graywolf), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a translation of Dante’s Inferno (Graywolf), with illustrations by Henrik Drescher. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

You Don’t Have a Father and He Likes Cheese

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

by Mauro Javier Cardenas

May 22, 2018

Take him, Alma wrote almost ten years ago, when she was still a senior in high school and her English teacher, Mr. Poland, tried to teach her and her retrograde classmates how to craft compelling opening sentences for their college admissions essays

Exposure

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

by Elizabeth Robinson

May 15, 2018

Punishment is a poor substitute for justice. When, after all, does punishment end? And what is punishment meant to do?

Three Poems

by Simon Perchik

May 8, 2018

You still eat roots the way each footstep
put together this hillside
as if it was once a pond and slowly

dried for the afternoon–a simple life