Contributors

Ben Marcus

Contributor History

Months in the Year of Animal Prayer, Conjunctions:20
False Water Society, Conjunctions:22
Sticks and Stones: An Introduction, Conjunctions:26
Notable American Women, Multimedia 10-22-1997 (mp3, 00:03:52)
Chemical Seuss, Conjunctions:29
The Technology of Silence, Conjunctions:34
The Launch, Conjunctions:36
[“On the occasion of his posthumous publications …”], Conjunctions:41
Just Because It Never Happened Doesn’t Mean We’re Still Alive, Conjunctions:43
On Not Growing Up, Conjunctions:50
Secret Breathing Techniques, Conjunctions:52

Biography

Ben Marcus is a recipient of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Letters and a fellowship from the Creative Capital Foundation. His work includes Leaving the Sea: Stories (Knopf) and The Flame Alphabet (Granta Books).

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In Print

Conjunctions:80

Ways of Water

Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Rachel

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

September 20, 2023

The Rachel stands tuned
to multiplicities,
aslant in a territory of longing,
where she becomes foreign.

What has she found?
She listens, acknowledges another sound,
diffuse, multiple,
pulsing thought, oscillations, whisperings,
never only one.

The Whorled

by Zachary Gary

September 13, 2023

I had yet to discover the source of that star, it came and it passed but from where it sprang and then fell to fading remained a mystery. In cycling its light lent its powers to coloring my tablecloth a lighter shade, relieving pigment from its duty to darken, except for those spots where I placed my bottles and cups, shielding only parts of the piece from fading, threads left closer to their original hues hewed to others abandoned as wraiths to their fates, a darker ring the mark of those who stayed behind.

Five Poems

by Donald Revell

September 6, 2023

Where the trees blackened, I saw,

Quickly, three deer lean into goldenness.

It seems, although wildfires rage

Out of control, this world remembers

Some portion of its first purposes:

Superfluous beauty