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Lucas Southworth
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Lucas Southworth
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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Vol. 73
Conjunctions:73
Earth Elegies
Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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Cut
by Paul Lisicky
March 17, 2020
1.

Because he could picture himself curled up on the shelf of the refrigerator between the bread and the light.

2.

Because he stared up at the sprinkler attachment and thought of it as a metal flower.
The One Who Takes Your Name
by David Bajo
March 10, 2020
Mears takes your name. As soon as you say it, he speaks it in quick echo, and it is now his and no longer yours. We don’t know what he does with it or what it does for him, but we do know what happens to those he pilfers.
Three Poems
by Marlon Hacla
Translated by Kristine Ong Muslim
March 3, 2020
All those touched and killed by the night end up floating on sea. Strewn across some other beaches are the stranded bodies of dead kings.