Contributors

Nathaniel Mackey

Contributor History

From From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Conjunctions:5
On Edge, Conjunctions:6
Three Poems, Conjunctions:10
From Djbot Baghostus’s Run, Conjunctions:16
Song of the Andoumboulou: 30 , Conjunctions:26
Phrenological Whitman, Conjunctions:29
Two Poems, Conjunctions:35
Two Poems, Conjunctions:44
Two Poems, Conjunctions:53
From From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate , Conjunctions:59
Lone Coast Rescension, Conjunctions:63 (63:131-137)
Song of the Andoumboulou: 181, Conjunctions:68
Untitled Original 11386i, Conjunctions:71

Biography

Poet Nathaniel Mackey’s work includes Nod House and Blue Fasa (both New Directions). He edits the literary magazine Hambone.

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In Print

Conjunctions:72

Nocturnals

Spring 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Earthrise Tango

by Martine Bellen

June 18, 2019

After Giantess declared her love, and conditions were set by Moon—build me a silver body, attire me, hinder my roll through space to attach the silvery limbs
—the two outliers danced until lightfall, where, on Venus, each day is longer than an Earth’s year. And dance on and on they did.

Five Laments for Our Good Earth

by Stephen O'Connor

June 11, 2019

“I wanted ours to be a perfect
union,” he tells us at the table in the back, candle out.

“I wanted every desire to be balanced, exactly,
by generosity. And stasis to be a form

of flight. But I was yammering
in my sleep.

From Nothing but Objects

After Rosmarie Waldrop

by Laura Wetherington, Curtis Emery

June 4, 2019

Sometimes I see a transparent profile, shadow-self with its thready tendrils turning to face the absence of a face framed by the window opposite. Selflessness is a complicated structure in that it doesn’t exist. The speaker ever-hovers just outside the door, listening. She went whichaway, grinding her teeth to shadow.

A Reading by Peter Orner

Monday, October 28, 2019

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm