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Mary Jo Bang
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Mary Jo Bang
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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Vol. 73
Conjunctions:73
Earth Elegies
Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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After Maria
A Selected Text from Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies
by Yxta Maya Murray
November 15, 2019
I was excited to help. The response here, officially, was bad. A lot of us knew we needed to react to that somehow. We wanted the victims to know that not everybody here felt like he did. But also, yeah, that’s the word for it, excited.
In the Mist of Everything
A Selected Text from Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies
by Hilary Leichter
November 8, 2019
Shira thought she would buy furniture for the bedroom first. Kevin made attempts at saving his garden. Doreen pushed the dough down with the heel of her hand. Gabriel tried a new yoga pose. Cynthia and Steve went for a drive. Toby said, The weather is just great. Marybeth wore the same dress two days in a row.
The Apartment Dweller’s Alphabetical Dreambook
by Kij Johnson
November 5, 2019
An abalone shell in a dream signifies a new home.

To be afraid in a dream signifies strife along with danger, which seems obvious enough.

Clear air in a dream signifies success in one’s business affairs.
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A Reading by Carole Maso
Monday, March 2, 2020
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema