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Kirstin Allio
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Kirstin Allio
Kirstin Allio is the author of the novel Garner (Coffee House) and the short story collection Clothed, Female Figure (Dzanc). She is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction and has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, as well as fellowships from the Howard Foundation at Brown University and the MacDowell Colony.

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Vol. 72
Conjunctions:72
Nocturnals
Spring 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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Earthrise Tango
by Martine Bellen
June 18, 2019
After Giantess declared her love, and conditions were set by Moon—build me a silver body, attire me, hinder my roll through space to attach the silvery limbs
—the two outliers danced until lightfall, where, on Venus, each day is longer than an Earth’s year. And dance on and on they did.
Five Laments for Our Good Earth
by Stephen O'Connor
June 11, 2019
“I wanted ours to be a perfect
union,” he tells us at the table in the back, candle out.

“I wanted every desire to be balanced, exactly,
by generosity. And stasis to be a form

of flight. But I was yammering
in my sleep.
From Nothing but Objects
After Rosmarie Waldrop
by Laura Wetherington, Curtis Emery
June 4, 2019
Sometimes I see a transparent profile, shadow-self with its thready tendrils turning to face the absence of a face framed by the window opposite. Selflessness is a complicated structure in that it doesn’t exist. The speaker ever-hovers just outside the door, listening. She went whichaway, grinding her teeth to shadow.
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A Reading by Peter Orner
Monday, October 28, 2019
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm