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:74

Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

Spring 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Eleison for Solo Migration

by Quintan Ana Wikswo

September 30, 2020

The birds here
Have not changed
They drop salt not seeds
Into my open mouth

Now—my back bare to the sky
Breasts buried in soil
Thrust into the darkness of this
Searching out each star

Rigmarole

by Sarah Gridley

September 23, 2020

A poem listens
to both rooms from the middle
ground of its title, the threshold strip

Four Poems

by Elizabeth Metzger

September 16, 2020

An exhibit was all you wanted

and me to lay close
my face

like a film behind a curtain