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:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Sequentials

by Colin Fleming

August 14, 2018

The coffee from yesterday warmed up and left in the microwave, the late-December sky two hours before the sun comes up outside of smudgy windows. Sitting. The desk. The bed. The bed the desk. It’s funny the things we hold on to, for no particular reason, or no good reason.

Six Poems

by Jessica Reed

July 31, 2018

Perhaps we should begin in extreme heat
              or intemperate ice,                  in salt solutions,
              in drastic acid or radical alkaline,         in heavy metals
or in toxic waste—                    wherever life seems improbable

Done to Scale

by Michael Harris Cohen

July 24, 2018

First, an unsteady tree of clothing inside the door: the coat rack, heaped with jackets, scarfs and furs, most torn, buttons missing, some stained, all rarely worn as few ever go out—for what is outside the house but another house?