Contributors

Stephen O’Connor

Contributor History

Man in the Moon, Conjunctions:50
Disappearance and, Conjunctions:52
’Til There Was You, Conjunctions:55
’Til There Was You, Conjunctions:55 (mp3, 00:19:14)
I Would Never Do These Things, Conjunctions:58
Next to Nothing, Conjunctions:60
The Zip, Conjunctions:62
The End of the End of the World, Conjunctions:66
The End of the End of the World, Conjunctions:66 (mp3, 00:13:52)
Little Rooms, Conjunctions:69 (64–78)

Biography

Photo © Anna Levine

Stephen O’Connor is the author of Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings (Viking), Here Comes Another Lesson (Free Press), Rescue (Harmony), Will My Name Be Shouted Out? (Simon & Schuster), and Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed (Houghton Mifflin). He teaches in the Sarah Lawrence MFA writing program.

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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?