Contributors

Lucas Southworth

Contributor History

Same Life / Different One, Online 02-08-2008
An Introduction to James Gatrell’s Journals and Letters, Online 10-23-2012
Something Human, Online 08-01-2017
We Are All Breakable, Ready to Break, Conjunctions:74
We Are All Breakable, Ready to Break — A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel's Kin: The Monsters Issue, Online 06-22-2020

Biography

Lucas Southworth’s first fiction collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun (University of Massachusetts Press), won AWP’s Grace Paley Prize. Recent work has appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Willow Springs, and others. He teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.

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In Print

Conjunctions:75

Dispatches from Solitude

Fall 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Poem Called “The Lie” After the Poem by C. K. Williams from Which It Takes Its Last Two Lines

by Susan Wheeler

April 14, 2021

When you think of white do you think of Rembrandt
in darkness          pockmarked     a sieve or a monkfish
Ahead now    ahead then:       ash        scrub pine        shade
and Penny –– then twelve        then my brother’s sole friend

Seven Poems

by Graham Foust

April 7, 2021

To sing’s to field thought’s
failed arrow, then drop it,

as sadness surprises,
as always, then doesn’t,

its record all rumors, bits
of lithic in its meat,

Four Poems

by Theodore Worozbyt

March 31, 2021

Underneath the electric microscope frass gathered like a word no one could pronounce, or something children left in a cage. Sugar ants were gorging on the corpse of a cicada next to the front door. Soon four golden mounds were theirs, to carry back in their lemony bellies to the queen. I have a box of nine suns set on spikes, a pair of gray bags concealing speakers. I am your teacher, said the teacher, alone in a room. If there is a predicate to this.