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:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Things That Are Funny on a Submarine but Not Really (FSBNR)

by Yannick Murphy

February 18, 2020

Things that are Funny on a Submarine But Not Really— The torpedo man named Grenadier who lives in South Carolina and thinks North Carolina is the North. The XO who hates my bucket hat I wear printed with cherries, but would rather me wear it than the other one I have that says, “Bigfoot is Real.”

Dance Hall Days

by Diane Josefowicz

February 4, 2020

Although family therapy consumed more time than basketball practice and did not improve my odds of attending my first-choice college, my sister’s suicide attempt had alarmed my parents, and they were taking every precaution against relapse.

Horse, meet barn door. Bird, meet coop. I am trying to say: It was all so predictable.

Last Days with the Product

by Matt Greene

January 28, 2020

I worked for commission in a sterile room with many clocks. The product did not glimmer in the fluorescence, but it was as if it did, and better, like they’d found a way to remove the obligatory negative space of glimmering when the object floated in darkness.

A Reading by Carole Maso

The 2018 Berlin Prize winner reads from her work

Monday, March 2, 2020

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema