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)
Coyotes, Conjunctions:71

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:71

A Cabinet of Curiosity

Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

In the Permanent Collection

by Mary-Kim Arnold

March 19, 2019

Do this in memory of my mother

and of my mother’s mother

Here is this lacquered box (Fig. 100.5) inlaid

with their blood

Nietzsche at Night

by Meredith Stricker

March 12, 2019

after collapsing at the plaza fountain in Turin Nietzsche gave up
coherent speech and stayed alive somewhere else for almost twelve years
his unmapped terrain resembled a canvas painted black in successive
luminous opacities of backlit abyss, if he turned on a television
this is what he saw, if he closed his eyes, if he looked out the window
again unshielded night

The Page Turner

by Tova Reich

March 5, 2019

For once they all agreed, it would be the concert of the season, the return of the prodigy son. The Jerusalem music scene was in heat—survivors, empty seat fillers, remnants planted on their subscriptions, but from the neck up, in brainpans that went on ticking, still the strictest standards, the highest expectations.

A Reading by Joanna Scott

The Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Joanna Scott reads from her work

Monday, April 1, 2019

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium