conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 11/06/2025News and a new issue:conjunctions.comConjunctionsDear friends of Conjunctions, 0101
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/06/2025"Poetry is our essential language, and it is as essential to me as breathing." Celebrating the release of Conjunctions:84, We Love All We Voices by sharing the piece that opens the issue, a lecture by Arthur Sze!conjunctions.comConjunctionsTomáš Malík, Green Aurora Borealis, 2019. 091
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 28/05/2025NEW this week online, seven poems by Andrew Maxwell!conjunctions.com 020
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This week online, we’re sharing a letter from Julia Elliott that was written as a tribute for a farewell celebration at Bard. As many of you know, Bard is ending our institutional support, and we are embarking on a new, independent chapter in challenging times. 110
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 14/05/2025"Memory lies between rhythm."conjunctions.com 000
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Honored to have published this Edgar! Thank you @mysterywriters.bsky.social and congratulations @erikakrouse.bsky.social ! 040
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 07/05/2025On International Workers’ Day, we received a fitting surprise: “Lords of the Wind,” a story by Yxta Maya Murray that spans several United Farm Workers protests, was awarded a Pushcart Prize. We’re thrilled to share it online today!conjunctions.comConjunctionsHe caught up to him at the corner of La Posada. And that’s where he, you know, hit him. With a flashlight, on the back of his head. 060
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 30/04/2025April is for poetry. conjunctions.com/articles/kir...conjunctions.com 020
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 23/04/2025On every Earth Day, we think of Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies. This year, we’ve decided to share the piece that opens the issue, which remembers Brazil nut foragers and eco-martyrs Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva and Zé Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva.conjunctions.comConjunctionsThe days stand like angels in blue and gold, incomprehensible, above the ring of annihilation. 071
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Next week, Bard College celebrates thirty-five years as Conjunctions’ publisher with two special events, including a reading featuring Forrest Gander. To mark the occasion, we’ve made Gander’s first publication in Conjunctions available online.conjunctions.comConjunctionsShibuya 181
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 09/04/2025"He knows where the pasture cools, where the wild fires. He knows where the weather’s happening. He has ten strong cows, a dog. The cows he knows by name, the trees he knows by name. The hill—for he stands on a hill—is shrubbed with conifers."conjunctions.com 041
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025A huge thank you to everyone who made our first ever Conjunctions Benefit Salon a night to remember! Special thanks to: 161
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Last night, at our very first benefit salon, we raised a glass, raised funds for the future, and celebrated the amazing contributors who’ve kept Conjunctions going for more than 40 years. One of those many amazing contributors is Peter Gizzi. Check out his work!conjunctions.comConjunctionsThomas Baldwin, from Airopaidia, 1786. 030
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 26/03/2025In honor of Women’s History Month, a firebrand story by THE Margaret Atwood, which was originally published in Conjunctions:83. Told through only dialogue, a ghost avenges the girl she was by reviving, in death, a broken promise of “I’ll love you forever.” 🖤 🖤 🖤conjunctions.comConjunctions“Hello, Steve. Oops, did I startle you? It’s okay, you can put your PJ bottoms on. I’m not peeking.” 020
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 19/03/2025NEW this week online, a memorable piece from the archive in honor of Rick Moody's upcoming reading. Hope you can join us on the 31st! conjunctions.com/articles/she... 020
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Join us for a reading with Rick Moody! Monday, March 31 4 p.m. Weis Cinema, Bard College conjunctions.com/announcement... 010
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"In our country, we know that everything is true, what anyone says or thinks." buff.ly/mj4arnT 042
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 06/03/2025We asked our Revenants contributors what haunts them as writers, but we also want to know what haunts you. The past? The future? Semicolons? 220
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 05/03/2025For those who couldn’t join us for Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry’s reading, we’re sharing an interview with Kelly published in Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens. Topics include Star Trek, first contact, and other aspects of a literary life. 👽 buff.ly/4ihwDVu Photo Copyright Adrianne Mathiowetz 03615
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Yesterday's one-of-a-kind reading of "The Family Arcana," a story in cards. Thank you to jedediahberry.bsky.social, kellylink.bsky.social, and everyone who joined us for such a fantastic evening! ✨ 130
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 28/02/2025"Both kellylink.bsky.social ’s The Book of Love and jedediahberry.bsky.social 's The Naming Song were just named two of the five finalists for the prestigious LA Times Book Award in Sci-Fi/Fantasy for 2025. It will be wonderful to congratulate them both in person at Bard.” buff.ly/4ihsy3C bard.eduWriters Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry ’99 to Give Reading at Bard College on March 3Award-winning writers Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry ’99 will give a reading on Monday, March 3, at 4:00 pm in Weis Cinema in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. The event, which is… 120
Reposted by @conjunctions.bsky.socialJedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Looking forward to reading with Kelly Link at my alma mater next month, in the very location I once played Baron Hardup of Hardup Hall for the Victorian Studies Department's presentation of a Cinderella pantomime. 2246
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 26/02/2025NEW this week online, a city made from nine concentric rings and a law restricting citizens from migrating between rings only twice. buff.ly/4b6H0Jn 040
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Join us in Annandale for a reading by Kelly Link & Jedediah Berry! Monday, March 3 4 p.m. Weis Cinema, Bard College 0275
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 19/02/2025In celebration of Erika Krouse's 2025 Edgar Award nom, we’re sharing an excerpt of her story "Eat My Moose" this week online! (Also, check out her new book! 😍 ) buff.ly/411lzoj 060
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Five artworks. Five poems. One Chris Tysh. buff.ly/4hVdf07 070
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 05/02/2025NEW this week online, “Finally,” by Patricia Smith, a revenge story told from the point of view of a racist police officer as he is confronted by the ghosts of those who have been murdered by other racist police officers. buff.ly/3CGSsP3 021
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 29/01/2025"You have a heart of starlings, a heart of their cacophony; of this, you are sure." buff.ly/3PPw0Gw 041
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Six poems by Sandra Meek, NEW this week online! buff.ly/3WicwxF 020
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 15/01/2025"I couldn't find the words, because it wasn't made of words..." buff.ly/4ahdIYc 040
Reposted by @conjunctions.bsky.socialBradford Morrow @bradfordmorrow.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Today is pub day for both THE FORGER'S REQUIEM and my illustrated essay on lithub.com, "A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds" which covers forgeries of everyone from Dante to Cormac McCarthy. Hope you enjoy the reads, and no fraudsters be. lithub.com/the-forgers-...lithub.comThe Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and FraudsImagine waking up one morning and deciding to become William Shakespeare. You have fantasized about it for years and now you’re taking the fateful step. Overcome by a heady mixture of zeal, naivete… 0115
Reposted by @conjunctions.bsky.socialThe Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 13/01/2025Congratulations to an emotional PETER GIZZI winner of this year’s Eliot Prize. We’re proud to have published some of the poems in this amazing collection in The Poetry Review. We salute you! 313526
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 09/01/2025So many friends on this list! Can't wait to read their new work! Bradford Morrow Edmund White Kevin Young Ceslaw Milosz Edward Gorey Shane McCrae Paul Lisicky Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Karen Russell Ben Okri Stephen Graham Jones Lynne Tillman Julia Elliott Geoff Dyer Jamaica Kincaid 093
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Though it’s now officially winter, little by little, the late afternoons are filling with sunlight. Your generous contributions over the holidays have given us a similar feeling of hope. Each gift of $25, $100, and $1,000 has inched us closer to our goal of independently publishing Conjunctions:85. 150
Reposted by @conjunctions.bsky.socialChristopher M. Cevasco @cmcevasco.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Two more late-breaking specfic stories I just read & want to add to my 2024 best-of-the-year thread. 🧵(19/18) Both in @conjunctions.bsky.social: • 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼, "Endlings" (issue #83) • 𝗬𝘅𝘁𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆, "Lords of the Wind" (issue #82) 021
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 01/01/2025New year, new website. Cheers to 2025! buff.ly/3P6zPXC 050
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 31/12/20242025 will be big for us—after 33 years at Bard, we'll be producing our fall issue independently. We need your help to make this happen. So before you pop the champagne, please make a donation and remember to write "Conjunctions" in the notes. Cheers to another year! buff.ly/4e0gbGU 072
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Your gift x 2! Donate before January 1st, and any gift you give to Conjunctions will be matched up to 10K! buff.ly/4e0gbGU (Remember to write "Conjunctions" in the notes!) 000
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Match your gift, double your impact! Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, every tax-deductible donation will be matched up to $10K through December 31st! Help ensure our independent future this holiday! buff.ly/4e0gbGU (Remember to write "Conjunctions" in the notes!) 030
Reposted by @conjunctions.bsky.socialBradford Morrow @bradfordmorrow.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Wow! What an unexpected honor for my essay, "In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane" to be selected as one of Lit Hub's "Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024: The Best Writing at the Site This Year, According to the Editors." lithub.com/our-favorite...lithub.comOur Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024From essays to interviews, excerpts to blog posts, reading lists to poems, we publish a lot of good stuff at Lit Hub, if we do say so ourselves. And while we are proud of all of the pieces we’ve sh… 193
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Accessible. Navigable. Beautiful. NEW this week online, our website! Join us in thanking the incredible Everything Studio who designed this exceptional home for our work! buff.ly/3P6zPXC 040
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Don’t let us ghost. Double your donation with this holiday matching grant! Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, we are able to double any tax-deductible donation up to $10K! buff.ly/4e0gbGU (Remember to write “Conjunctions” in the notes!) 021
Reposted by @conjunctions.bsky.socialBradford Morrow @bradfordmorrow.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Just received my first copy of THE FORGER'S REQUIEM and here it stands alongside its younger siblings on the kitchen table where the trilogy was written! Huge gratitude to everyone at @groveatlantic.bsky.social for their amazing & exemplary support. Publishes soon! Opening line: "We all die alive." 2194
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 11/12/2024POV: You're a spirit floating with other spirits, clustered like shadowy soap bubbles resting on the ceiling. buff.ly/49wDqrm 030
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Another peek beyond the veil and into our fabulous ghost issue! 081
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New online this week, contributors of Revenants, The Ghost Issue share their closest encounters with ghosts, the spookiest stories of their hometowns, and the most haunted places they’ve ever been. buff.ly/3OvWpIw 0102
conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Submittable is open through December 15! buff.ly/3QnOAX4 051
