Office of the President, Office of the Dean of the College, and Written Arts Program Presents
35 years of Conjunctions at Bard College!
A Conversation between editor Bradford Morrow and critic Christian Lorentzen on the importance of literary journals for contemporary writers.
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Tuesday, 22 April, 5:00PM. Bito Conservatory Auditorium
A Reading with special guests, including Forrest Gander, Shane McCrae, and Francine Prose.
Since 1981, Conjunctions, founded and edited by Bradford Morrow, has been the preeminent home for writers who challenge convention with works that are formally innovative and culturally transformative.
Bard has been publishing Conjunctions since 1990, beginning with issue #15 and running through to forthcoming issue #84 We Love All We Voices.
Conjunctions was Initially conceived as a festschrift for New Directions’ founder, James Laughlin. The inaugural issue included Tennessee Williams, John Hawkes, Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, and Paul Bowles. Since the journal has come to Bard, it has featured work by, among many others: Forrest Gander, Mary Caponegro, Joyce Carol Oats, Robert Creeley, Lydia Davis, Ben Okri, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ann Lauterbach, David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, Peter Gizzi, Karen Russell, Nathanael Mackey and Shane McCrae.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].