Contributors

Miranda Mellis

Contributor History

From Rune to Ruin, Online 03-03-2010
Misapprehensions: A Mobile in Ten Parts, Conjunctions:54
From The Spokes, Conjunctions:57
Up the Hill, Conjunctions:60
The Face Says Do Not Kill Me, Conjunctions:64

Biography

Miranda Mellis is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press) and the chapbook Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs). The Revisionist has been translated into Italian and Croatian, and is the basis for a ninety-foot-long drawing by Megan Vossler on display at Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Harper’s, Tin House, the Believer and Modern Painters.

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In Print

Conjunctions:73

Earth Elegies

Fall 2019
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

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.

L’altro figlio

by Fortunato Salazar

December 17, 2019

Though we mocked Dad mercilessly, our mocking was such as to lead him on convincingly. Dad! There is hope for you if, say, you are struck by lightning. So often did he sulk out on the balcony that he did seem to be inviting a strike. Or a stumble.

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