Contributors

Tomaž Šalamun

Contributor History

Three Poems, Online 11-04-2006
Four Poems, Online 10-16-2012

Biography

Tomaž Šalamun lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has taught at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His recent books in English are The Blue Tower (translated by Michael Biggins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) and On the Tracks of Wild Game (translated by Sonja Kravanja, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012).

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In Print

Conjunctions:71

A Cabinet of Curiosity

Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Film: NOX Transfer

by Karla Kelsey

November 20, 2018

The film begins silver, white, and black as two nude bodies make their way down the beach to a sea scattered with geranium heads a layer of petals overtaking us, one male and one female, as the wave does.

Transfer

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by Laura van den Berg

November 15, 2018

After the sudden death of my employer, I was tasked with overseeing the transfer of his personal library. The books would travel from his studio in New York City to an arts foundation in Italy, where my employer had once enjoyed a long and productive stay, many years in the past.

The Malingerers

by Kristine Ong Muslim

November 13, 2018

8:00 p.m. in this perpetual night shift, and we talk again to the person inside the photo booth, you know, that one photo booth that tunnels all the way down—or up, depending on where you are—to that familiar place where all afterlife and underworld mythologies owe their artifice, the predictability of salvation they purport to deliver.