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Bard Celebrates Conjunctions

Monday, March 2, 2015

Stevenson Library

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the publishing partnership between Bard and the innovative literary journal Conjunctions, the Stevenson Library presents a special exhibition of issues and ephemera from the journal's archive, including artwork by Brice Marden and Francesco Clemente, the first publication of material from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (with a never-reprinted introduction by the author), unpublished cover mock-ups, and more.

Contact: Micaela Morrissette, [email protected], 845-758-7054

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Ways of Water

Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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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