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Conjunctions Fortieth Anniversary Issue Reading with Fred D’Aguiar, Samuel R. Delany, Ann Lauterbach, Sofia Samatar, and Bradford Morrow

An evening of readings from Conjunctions:76, Fortieth Anniversary Issue, presented by Elliott Bay Book Company

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

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Conjunctions contributors Fred D’Aguiar, Ann Lauterbach, Samuel R. Delany,  Sofia Samatar, and editor Bradford Morrow [Conjunctions Fortieth Anniversary Issue Reading with Fred D’Aguiar, Samuel R. Delany,  Ann Lauterbach, Sofia Samatar, and Bradford Morrow]

Please join us for an online evening of readings from Conjunctions:76, Fortieth Anniversary Issue, the latest issue of the biannual literary journal published by Bard College. The celebratory event will feature readings by contributing authors Fred D’Aguiar, Samuel R. Delany, Ann Lauterbach, and Sofia Samatar, and an introduction by founder and editor Bradford Morrow.

The event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company. Register to attend via Eventbrite here.

About Conjunctions:76, Fortieth Anniversary Issue

Edited by Bradford Morrow and published twice yearly by Bard College, Conjunctions showcases innovative fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by emerging voices and contemporary masters. The spring 2021 issue, Conjunctions:76, Fortieth Anniversary Issue, celebrates the magazine’s forty years in print with new and previously unpublished writing by Ben Okri, Karen Russell, Peter Cole, Ann Lauterbach, Lydia Davis, Samuel R. Delany, Akil Kumarasamy, John Ashbery, Joyce Carol Oates, Sofia Samatar, Richard Powers, Shane McCrae, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, William H. Gass, Can Xue, Jessica Campbell, Fred D’Aguiar, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carole Maso, Julia Alvarez, Genya Turovskaya, Mark Irwin, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sanjena Sathian, Peter Orner, Rosmarie Waldrop, Colin Channer, Isabella Hammad, Lance Olsen, Diane Williams, Laird Hunt, Laynie Browne, Wendy Xu, JoAnna Novak, Megan Kakimoto, Quincy Troupe, Tomaž Šalamun, Julia Elliott, and Robert Coover, and a foreword by Rick Moody.

For more information about this issue, visit conjunctions.com/print/archive/conjunctions76.

Contact: Evangeline Riddiford Graham, [email protected], 845-758-6822 x7054

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Conjunctions:80

Ways of Water

Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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Rainmaking

by Lindsey Drager

May 24, 2023

Of course the book she writes—the lesser book, the book about nothing—becomes a popular text, one that readers adore. When they ask her what she will write next, she says she is going to write the book over. Over? they ask her.
Again, she says. She isn’t really a writer, she tells them, she’s a transcriber. She transcribes stories.
Across languages? they ask.
No, she says. That would be translation. I used to do that but stopped, she says. Now I transcribe. I take texts and transcribe them into another version of the same language.
So you rewrite, they say.
No, she says. You’ll see.

The Wave Readers

by Kristin Posehn

May 18, 2023

For thousands of years, the peoples of the Marshall Islands have entertained a bustling interisland travel by canoe and small sailing craft without any of the tools—compass, sextant, nautical charts, and, these days, GPS—on which the rest of the world has depended. Within a purely oral tradition, Marshallese navigators developed a highly refined system of voyaging, relying entirely on their senses to decipher the subtlest of codes in the aqueous environment. Theirs has always been a world of waves.

The River Abides

With photographs by the author

by Susan Hanson

May 10, 2023

I’ve been snorkeling in this river for sixteen years now and documenting a small stretch of it for about thirteen. Once a week, year ‘round, regardless of the weather, I will swim for several hours, picking up trash as I go, but mostly photographing what I find—fish and turtles, plants and rocks, even the contours of the riverbed, which change depending on the flow. Based on John Burroughs’ maxim—“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday”—I decided a long time ago to focus on the half-mile reach that runs from City Park, through Sewell Park, and on to the spillway below Spring Lake.