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Joe Fletcher
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Joe Fletcher is the author of the poetry collection The Hatch (Brooklyn Arts Press), the forthcoming novella Jenny Haniver (Bored Wolves), the monograph William Blake as Natural Philosopher (Anthem), as well as five chapbooks, including The Parachutist (Ethel) and Kola Superdeep Borehole (Bateau). He teaches at the University of North Carolina and in the North Carolina prison system, and is the assistant editor of The William Blake Archive. 

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

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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.
Nuclear Herbarium
by Radha Marcum
September 11, 2024
With floret centers so prolific
they turn—furred caterpillar folds?
zipped mouths? burn marks?—
the quite contrary daisy faces grow
dense in Mary’s garden.
Four Poems
by Bob Hicok
September 4, 2024
He woke from a dream.

He was in the garage of an old house,
riding one of those toy horses
held to a metal frame by springs.
It was not very fast, not very curious
about the horizon.
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