A longtime contributor to Conjunctions, Keith Waldrop was an internationally-celebrated poet, translator, and editor. Waldrop published over a dozen books of poetry, including the 2009 National Book Award–winning Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press), and two books of prose, Hegel’s Family (Station Hill) and Light While There is Light (Sun & Moon). He received France’s distinguished “Chevalier des arts et des lettres” for his translations of French literature, which included works by Charles Baudelaire and Claude Royet-Journoud, among many others. With his wife Rosmarie Waldrop, he co-edited the innovative Burning Deck Press for over 50 years.

Claude Royet-Journoud is a French poet and artist. He is perhaps best known for his tetralogy: Le Renversement (Gallimard), La Notion d’Obstacle (Awede, Windsor, Vt), Les Objets contiennent l’infini, and Les Natures indivisibles (both also Gallimard). His work has also appeared in journals and magazines such as Acts, Temblor, o-blek, New Directions, Moving Letters, and Lingo.