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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:75

Dispatches from Solitude

Fall 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Seven Poems

by Graham Foust

April 7, 2021

To sing’s to field thought’s
failed arrow, then drop it,

as sadness surprises,
as always, then doesn’t,

its record all rumors, bits
of lithic in its meat,

Four Poems

by Theodore Worozbyt

March 31, 2021

Underneath the electric microscope frass gathered like a word no one could pronounce, or something children left in a cage. Sugar ants were gorging on the corpse of a cicada next to the front door. Soon four golden mounds were theirs, to carry back in their lemony bellies to the queen. I have a box of nine suns set on spikes, a pair of gray bags concealing speakers. I am your teacher, said the teacher, alone in a room. If there is a predicate to this.

3 Photos of Us Laughing in the Public Fauna

by Maura Pellettieri

March 24, 2021

A hole in the sky
is what it looks like. Something that will be replaced
by color, which is a kind of
false answer, and yet the only real truth
in this world. The only “real truth”
by which I mean
forgiving. Fog is made virtually