Continuing our thread on our artist – Ly Tran Quynh Giang who has been selected to feature in Conduit issue 31, a literary magazine featuring highlighted art from Yayoi Kusama, Marina Abramovic, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Kruger, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, and many others. Immerse yourself in the Giang's third artwork (Inside of Me, 2017, Carved wood, 100 x 77 x 2 cm), accompanied by the poem “Found in Jane Kenyon’s Otherwise” by Polly Buckingham.

Ly Tran Quynh Giang's "Inside of Me” presented in pairing with a poetry curated by the editor in the Conduit 31 (“Found in Jane Kenyon’s Otherwise” of Polly Buckingham)

Found in Jane Kenyon’s Otherwise

Polly Buckingham

A photo of a parachute

above a black and white field.

A list of names and phone numbers:

people I invited to my sister’s funeral.

A bookmark from a store long closed.

A letter to a man: I can’t stop

imagining you turning toward me

in morning light, your wide chess

and curious hand. I’m sorry

I’ve never told you

I close the poems, pull the cover

over me in the morning chill

and watch the bees fumble

the new blossoms

of the apple tree

“Inside of Me” by Ly Tran Quynh Giang , 2017, Carved wood, 100 x 77 x 2 cm

“Alone together” is the theme of this issue, specially tailored for this covid era.

The full cover page of the Conduit 31 issue

* Conduit is a biannual literary journal that is at once direct, playful, inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful. Conduit publishes distinctive voices of literary merit—experimental to accessible, established to emerging—in snazzy volumes, featuring work that demonstrates originality, intelligence, courage, and humanity.

Conduit champions a fresh mix of writers. If that isn't enough, Conduit reaches beyond the literary by interviewing astronomers, ethno-botanists, artists, graphic artists, and historians, et cetera, believing a vigorous imagination is one that is cross-pollinated by diverse areas of human inquiry.