Contributors

Kirstin Allio

Contributor History

Four Poems, Online 05-23-2017

Biography

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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In Print

Conjunctions:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Recollection

by Julianna Baggott

January 21, 2020

I have taken a blow to the head.

Not one blow. Many blows. But one was worse than the others.

And my larynx is not my own. My heart isn’t either. But I have a phantom larynx and a phantom heart.

The Dream Tongue

by Jennifer Adams

January 14, 2020

We found the laptop in Cressey’s round room. It was black, thin, light as wood, and belonged to Dr. Marcus, the man who came on to me once, the one who smokes dope in the eaves, the philologist or psychologist. I can’t get these “terms” straight in my head anymore, what with these drugs they feed us. The afternoon pills, especially.

Three Poems

by Alexandria Peary

January 7, 2020

We turn the floodlights on the actors, extras in one of the world’s great short stories, surprising them mid-escapade, nocturnal animals caught playing dress up with our clothing, our fanciest possessions. Pearl choker on a possum, suit jacket on a raccoon. A skunk, a lynx, two tubby foxes moonlighting as twin nephews or as young men dating our daughters.

A Conjunctions Launch Reading with Joyce Carol Oates, Quincy Troupe, Rob Nixon, and Hilary Leichter

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe & Bar Celebrates the New Earth Elegies Issue

Thursday, January 30, 2020

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe & Bar, 126 Crosby St., New York, NY 10012