Conjunctions' editorial approach is often collaborative. Both the editor and the distinguished staff of active contributing editors — including Walter Abish, Chinua Achebe, John Ashbery, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Mary Caponegro, Robert Creeley, Elizabeth Frank, William H. Gass, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Robert Kelly, Ann Lauterbach, Norman Manea, Rick Moody, Joanna Scott, Peter Straub, William Weaver and John Edgar Wideman — rely on the advice of fellow writers across the country. Final selection of the material is made by the editor.[1]
History
According to founding rockstar Bradford Morrow, "Conjunctions got its start one afternoon in late 1980 as [Bradford] Morrow sat in Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth's library in Santa Barbara, California. The two friends had the idea to assemble a Festschrift for James Laughlin, the beloved editor of New Directions.[2] The first issue was published in December of 1981.[3]
Morrow financed the first few issues "on a string and a prayer", but his friends and colleagues soon started helping.[2] The magazine was originally published by David R. Godine in Boston, and then by Collier Macmillan, a now-defunct imprint of Scribner. Since 1990, it has been published by Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.[3]
Among the many writers published first or early in their careers in Conjunctions are David Foster Wallace, William T. Vollmann, Shelley Jackson, Ben Marcus, Thalia Field, Martine Bellen, Brian Evenson, and others.
In addition to its print journal, http://www.Conjunctions.com publishes original work weekly on Web Conjunctions. The journal's extensive website includes a multimedia archive of author readings, musical drama, as well as hundreds of complete contributions from the print issue dating back to 1981.
Notes
- ^ [1]Web page titled "Letter From the Editor" at the Conjunctions Web site, accessed December 14, 2006
- ^ a b [2] Larimer, Kevin, "The Functions of Conjunctions" article in Poets & Writers Web site, "News & Trends" section, undated but around October 2001, according to the article, accessed December 14, 2006
- ^ a b [3] "Brown University hosts three-day festival to celebrate Connunctions Anniversary", short news article at Poets & Writers Web site, dated October 5, 2006, accessed December 14, 2006
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