Contributors

Ryan Flaherty

Contributor History

Craquelure, Conjunctions:58
Brief, Image, and Etymology: On Reading, Conjunctions:63

Biography

Ryan Flaherty’s poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Columbia, Denver Quarterly, BOMBlog, and The Winter Anthology. In 2013, his piece in Conjunctions:58, Riveted: The Obsession Issue was named a notable essay in Best American Essays. His first book of poems, What’s This, Bombardier? (Pleiades and LSU Press), won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series and he has two chapbooks from Bateau Press and Small Fires Press.

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In Print

Conjunctions:74

Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

Spring 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

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

Rural America, 1974

by Thom Conroy

September 9, 2020

When I thought of their home life, I pictured them hunched beside flame, firelight bringing out grime on their faces.

Between my mother and grandmother, Mrs. Hufferman is always referred to as Lilly.