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Adrian Van Young

Contributor History

The Man Who Wore Death, Online 12-06-2016

Biography

Adrian Van Young is the author of The Man Who Noticed Everything, a collection of stories, and Shadows in Summerland, a novel. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Collagist, Black Warrior Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Slate, VICE, The Believer, and The New Yorker, among others.

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Six Poems

by Jessica Reed

July 31, 2018

Perhaps we should begin in extreme heat
              or intemperate ice,                  in salt solutions,
              in drastic acid or radical alkaline,         in heavy metals
or in toxic waste—                    wherever life seems improbable

Done to Scale

by Michael Harris Cohen

July 24, 2018

First, an unsteady tree of clothing inside the door: the coat rack, heaped with jackets, scarfs and furs, most torn, buttons missing, some stained, all rarely worn as few ever go out—for what is outside the house but another house?

Three Poems

by Aleš Šteger
Translated by Brian Henry

July 17, 2018

One, two days
And the mouth
Goes back on its word.