Contributors

Peter Cole

Contributor History

Rift, Conjunctions:6
Leviticus and Four Poems, Conjunctions:9
on Michael McClure, Conjunctions:9
on William Bronk, Conjunctions:11
Ambit, Conjunctions:12
on Edmond Jabès, Conjunctions:14
One to Bet: A Jerusalem Pamphlet, Conjunctions:15
On the Death and Existence of Isaac His Brother (after the Hebrew of Samuel Hanagid, also known as Ismail Ibn Nagrela), Conjunctions:17
From Island to Island, Conjunctions:23
From Speech’s Hedge Where the Honey, Conjunctions:23
Proverbial Drawing, Conjunctions:35
The Shunra and the Schmetterling, Conjunctions:37
Four Poems of the Kabbalah, Conjunctions:38
Why Does the World Out There Seem, Conjunctions:50

Biography

Peter Cole is the talent behind the poetry collection Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions). He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007.

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In Print

Conjunctions:74

Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

Spring 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Four Poems

by F. Daniel Rzicznek

June 30, 2020

The bones and crosses left out for him an emerald

Cicada dying attended by ants the emperor’s pleading face

All over town I dragged it behind me like a wing

New Sisters

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

by Selena Anderson

June 29, 2020

Quisa had fallen into the habit of disappointing herself, and then disappointing herself a little more, with the words she let slip from her mouth. She kept talking to people in this hungry, intimate way, as if they too had spent the time of their lives in their heads and read the warning labels too closely and worried irrationally about their lymph nodes. Accidental confessions are what these amounted to.

Thrown

by Roy Kesey

June 23, 2020

Four cops come. Both parents are arrested, D&D. The children—William, six, and Stephanie, three—are taken by CPS.

The neighborhood will be quiet for almost two weeks.