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Tomaž Šalamun

Contributor History

Three Poems, Online 11-04-2006
Four Poems, Online 10-16-2012
Six Opera Buffa Poems, Conjunctions:76

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:75

Dispatches from Solitude

Fall 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

From The Hölderliniae

by Nathaniel Tarn

March 3, 2021

The roses never looked so good before we gained a dormant garden
help. But roses burn in just one day of this appalling desert heat. An
effervescent sun burning the roses as I must wish it would inflame all
features of the abhorrent politicians plunging a nation into ruin ... and archaeology! We look in vain for faces from a human past.

Five Poems

by Rae Armantrout

February 24, 2021

Then geese cycle madly
across a pond
like Wile E. Coyote
three feet past the cliff—

catch lift
and join the great migration.

Moving Out

by Michael Holt

February 17, 2021

We’re coming home from school, walking up the hill, Marco in front, his head down, his hands buried in the pockets of his jeans, Laurel behind him, the collar of her shirt spilling out of her sweater like a tropical plant, then Samantha, agitated, as if struggling to free several birds from the snags in her hair, and finally Peter, our little brother, who lags behind us and sings:

and all the people said
what a shame that he’s dead