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:71

A Cabinet of Curiosity

Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Two Poems

by Rae Armantrout

December 11, 2018

Cresting the fence, each leaf
sharply particular, edgy, nearly
identical to its kin.

On the Floor, Beside the Bed

by Peter Orner

December 4, 2018

I read somewhere that we brood when we’re alone, we act when we’re together. As in act in a play. But she wasn’t acting, at least she didn’t know she was acting. Or maybe she was a far better actor than he was.

The Fisherman Bombardier of Naval Station Norfolk: A Performance in Four Generations, Three Races, and Too Many Genders to Name

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by Quintan Ana Wikswo

November 29, 2018

In this mariner’s damp the lichen sprouts, or rather creeps, in the manner molds and kisses do, prurient. Slightly closer then farther toward and away from their undisclosed destination. Investigating, guarded, but unwilling to cease from exploration.