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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!

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Tomáš Malík, Green Aurora Borealis, 2019.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

NEW this week online, seven poems by Andrew Maxwell!

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We know that with the recent abysmal NEA news many worthwhile literary organizations are asking for your support right now. We thank you for donating to Conjunctions what you can! ❤️

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We’ll be showcasing some of Julia’s fiction on our homepage, but we wanted to share her letter too because it so beautifully illustrates why we do what we do and why we aspire to continue.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Your generous donations are crucial in making this dream a reality.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This 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.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

On 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!

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He 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.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

April is for poetry. conjunctions.com/articles/kir...

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

On 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.

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The days stand like angels in blue and gold, incomprehensible, above the ring of annihilation.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Next 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.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."

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thanks for embarking with us on this new chapter! ♥️♥️♥️

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Everyone who generously donated, in spite of the uncertainty of our times. We appreciate you dreaming big, valuing the work we do, and forgiving our awkwardness, as we are much more comfortable discussing literature than asking for money!

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Everyone who attended—contributors, editors, readers, neighbors, friends—it was so great to see you and even meet some of you in person for the first time!

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Our new treasured friend and incredible host ELIZABETH DEWBERRY, a true supporter of the arts and skilled baker of chocolate chip cookies. 🍪

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

IRA SILVERBERG, a friend, advisor, and activist from the very beginning, who helped us organize this event and whose advocacy and energy are invaluable.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

MARY GANNON of @clmporg.bsky.social , whose help and support has made envisioning our future possible, for saying a few introductory words and for quoting our editor BRADFORD MORROW who said during an award ceremony in his honor that "there’s nothing little about little magazines."

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

2025 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize winner PETER GIZZI for sharing his poetry and memories of the origins of Conjunctions, when it was the journal in which he made his first appearance in print.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who made our first ever Conjunctions Benefit Salon a night to remember! Special thanks to:

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Last 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!

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Thomas Baldwin, from Airopaidia, 1786.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

In 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.” 🖤 🖤 🖤

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“Hello, Steve. Oops, did I startle you? It’s okay, you can put your PJ bottoms on. I’m not peeking.”

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

NEW 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...

A photo of a stack of old photos in an old woman's lap. She has white wrinkled skin and her feet are slipped and resting on a bright green, yellow, red, and blue rug. Text on a yellow background reads "She Forgot" and "Rick Moody."

$Yellow background with kelly green text that reads, "She forgot everything that was mundane and everything that was humdrum, and so there was no mundanity. The taste of toothpaste. A cup full of water, light refracted in it."$

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Join us for a reading with Rick Moody! Monday, March 31 4 p.m. Weis Cinema, Bard College conjunctions.com/announcement...

Black and white author photo of Rick Moody. In addition to his name, the text framing the image reads "The Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series Presents" and "Introduced by Bradford Morrow."

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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

Shadowy painting of an empty sitting room of what resembles Austro Hungarian opulence. Text underneath the image reads, "Hotel, Aleš Šteger, translated by Brian Henry."

Rasin mauve background with pale yellow text that reads, "Maybe this is the only thing left for us after the war: rumors. It doesn't matter whether someone believes them or not. In our country, we know that everything is true, what anyone says or thinks. That's why we all remain silent. We are silent and we go on living."

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We asked our Revenants contributors what haunts them as writers, but we also want to know what haunts you. The past? The future? Semicolons?

Black background with the text "We asked...What haunts you as a writer?"

Photo of Patricia Smith and the answer "The next line."

Photo of Erin MacNair and the answer "The idea that AI will infiltrate all the creative spaces, rendering writers obsolete."

Photo of Jame Morrow and the answer, "If all the ghosts and gods disappeared tomorrow, I would feel no personal sense of loss. But I could never abide a world without trees, insects, turtles, bats, and aging dogs. I am haunted by the vulnerability of the given.”

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

For 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

Bold blue background with lavender text that reads, "Years ago, Slate.com had a contest to come up with titles in teh same style as Snakes on a Plane. The best was "The Creature Lurks in the Structure." Which describes most succinctly my favorite genre. Perhaps all of art."

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Yesterday'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! ✨

Photo of the writer Jedediah Berry shuffling his story in cards.

Photo of Jedediah Berry extending his story in cards to the writer Mary Caponegro to cut the deck.

Photo of the writer Kelly Link reading from a podium.

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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

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Writers Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry ’99 to Give Reading at Bard College on March 3

Award-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…

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Looking 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.

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

NEW this week online, a city made from nine concentric rings and a law restricting citizens from migrating between rings only twice. buff.ly/4b6H0Jn

Old illuminated manuscript illustration of a close cluster of buildings, some with red roofs, green walls, and blue domes situated on a medium green background with the text "The Circular City" and "Brecht Wright Gander."

A medium green background with the text "The floor begins to tremble. You hold still as though holding still might be a means of protection. A pause. Silence. Dampness. Coolness falls through you. Then the clamor begins again."

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Join us in Annandale for a reading by Kelly Link & Jedediah Berry! Monday, March 3 4 p.m. Weis Cinema, Bard College

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In 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

Photograph of Conjunctions:82, Works & Days and Erika Krouse's book Save Me, Stranger on a wooden table situated on a yellow background with the text "Eat My Moose" and "Erika Krouse."

Yellow background with forest green text that reads, "But with these jobs, I feel ephemeral, anonymous, once I'm in the air or down the road. Under the roof of clouds, I check my body for pain and find none. Oftentimes I forget the client's name within miles. Sometimes I sing."

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conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

NEW 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

Screenshot of the Conjunctions website home page, which features the story "Finally," by Patricia Smith at the top, with a black and white photograph of a man covering his face with his hands.

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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

Watercolor of two gnarled beech trees facing each other on a hill in warm browns and purples against a cheery purple background. Light orange text reads "The Rites of Spring" and "Dan Rosenberg."

Cheery purple background with light orange text that reads, "Each branch of you is a branch of sawing. You descend full of dark and unsure of your own sap pumping in the dark inside of you. Unsure of the color. You have a heart of starlings, a heart of their cacophony; of this, you are sure."

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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

Photograph of winter sunrise over frosty plains. Text underneath reads, "Selling a Land Rover in Central Illinois" and "Alexander Fredman."

Tangerine background with cocoa brown text that reads, "I couldn't find the words, because it wasn't made of words, it had to do with the image of my father sitting in the car, his reserve against the bright, rhythmic music. Only in memory did I notice how hard he was trying not to smile."

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Bradford Morrow @bradfordmorrow.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Today 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-...

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The Forgers Hall of Fame: A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds

Imagine 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…

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 13/01/2025

Congratulations 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!

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