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Chanda Feldman
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Chanda Feldman
Chanda Feldman is the author of Approaching the Fields (LSU Press). Her recent poems appear in Gettysburg Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review. She has received awards and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Cave Canem Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, among others, and she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Feldman is an assistant professor of creative writing at Oberlin College.

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Vol. 82
Conjunctions:82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology
 
by Chloe Garcia Roberts
October 2, 2024
It is not a beautiful day in Mexico City unless you can see Popocatépetl. In this place, beauty is determined solely by whether or not the volcano breaches the nebulous smog like a visitation, by whether the eye can ascend its snow-covered face. When what was sensed but veiled yesterday is suddenly revealed today, it is, in the smallest way, a faith realized.
 
Three Cantos from Dante’s Paradiso
by Mary Jo Bang
September 25, 2024
My eyes were already fixed on the face
Of My Lady, and my mind with them—
All other thoughts had been wiped away.

She wasn’t smiling; instead, she began:
“If I were smiling, you’d become
Like Semele when she was turned to ashes,
Four Poems
by Joe Fletcher
September 18, 2024
We were picnicking on the plains
when she emerged from the rushes.
She wore an apricot smock.
Her face was smeared with soot.
She said her name was Stina Groth.
A cloud of bats burst from the chimney
of a crumbling cottage behind her.
We asked her where home was.
She drew a circle in the silt with a twig.
A Reading by Joyce Carol Oates
The internationally renowned writer will read from her work.
Monday, October 21, 2024
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents