Oni Buchanan is a poet, a pianist and an evolutionist. It
has been said that she "is able to speak from a place
closer to the dangerous heart of evolution than anyone
has ever attempted." Her award-winning first book What
Animal proves it. Now this virtuosa turns her attention to
kinetic poems, mandrakes and devolution. With the
formidable and indispensable assistance of Betsy Stone
Mazzoleni, Oni Buchanan gives us her three-part
mandrake revolution. Brace yourself.

Dieter M. Gräf was born in 1960 in Ludwigshafen,
Germany and lives in Cologne. He has published three
books of poetry, Rauchstudie: Vater + Son, Triebender
Kopf, and Westrand. Andrew Shields is a translator and
poet living in Switzerland. Hear the poems that appear
both in Westrand and our very own Conduit #15 read in
German and English by Gräf and Shields respectively.

Jorie Graham calls Tomaž Šalamun "one of Europe's great
philosophical wonders." Hear Salamun read four poems in
Slovenian and English. Hey, you can read along with him in
both languages, but you won't top his beautiful renditions.
These poems first appeared in Conduit #7.