Contributor History
- Two Poems, Online 05-18-2011
Biography
Lindsay Turner’s poetry and criticism have appeared in the Boston Review, Drunken Boat, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn.
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June 30, 2020
The bones and crosses left out for him an emerald
Cicada dying attended by ants the emperor’s pleading face
All over town I dragged it behind me like a wing
Cicada dying attended by ants the emperor’s pleading face
All over town I dragged it behind me like a wing
A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue
June 29, 2020
Quisa had fallen into the habit of disappointing herself, and then disappointing herself a little more, with the words she let slip from her mouth. She kept talking to people in this hungry, intimate way, as if they too had spent the time of their lives in their heads and read the warning labels too closely and worried irrationally about their lymph nodes. Accidental confessions are what these amounted to.
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