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THURSDAY May 4th at 3PM: CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE with Gillian Conoley - Free online poetry workshop This FREE, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features ⁠ Gillian Conoley, one of our favorite poets, leads an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “The Present/” by Lisa Robertson. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group.

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — While plagues have historically fostered every kind of loss—of freedom, of livelihood, of hope, of life itself—the isolation of grim eras such as the one we are now experiencing can also provoke introspection, fresh curiosity, and, with luck and mettle, singular creativity. Conjunctions:75, Dispatches from Solitude — the latest issue of the innovative literary magazine published by Bard College — gathers fiction, poetry, essays, and genre-bending w...