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Aimee Bender
Contributor History
Biography
Aimee Bender is the author of five books, including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and The Color Master (both Doubleday), a New York Times notable book of 2013. She teaches at the University of Southern California.

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In Print

Vol. 73
Conjunctions:73
Earth Elegies
Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Three Poems
by Laura Kolbe
March 31, 2020
in the pharmacy of the child
one used a hopscotch stone
a jacket zipper one’s tongue
the sharper tongue of a friend
anything to get one’s soft skin back
Cut
by Paul Lisicky
March 17, 2020
1.

Because he could picture himself curled up on the shelf of the refrigerator between the bread and the light.

2.

Because he stared up at the sprinkler attachment and thought of it as a metal flower.
The One Who Takes Your Name
by David Bajo
March 10, 2020
Mears takes your name. As soon as you say it, he speaks it in quick echo, and it is now his and no longer yours. We don’t know what he does with it or what it does for him, but we do know what happens to those he pilfers.