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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:71

A Cabinet of Curiosity

Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Two Poems

by Rae Armantrout

December 11, 2018

Cresting the fence, each leaf
sharply particular, edgy, nearly
identical to its kin.

On the Floor, Beside the Bed

by Peter Orner

December 4, 2018

I read somewhere that we brood when we’re alone, we act when we’re together. As in act in a play. But she wasn’t acting, at least she didn’t know she was acting. Or maybe she was a far better actor than he was.

The Fisherman Bombardier of Naval Station Norfolk: A Performance in Four Generations, Three Races, and Too Many Genders to Name

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

by Quintan Ana Wikswo

November 29, 2018

In this mariner’s damp the lichen sprouts, or rather creeps, in the manner molds and kisses do, prurient. Slightly closer then farther toward and away from their undisclosed destination. Investigating, guarded, but unwilling to cease from exploration.