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:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Sequentials

by Colin Fleming

August 14, 2018

The coffee from yesterday warmed up and left in the microwave, the late-December sky two hours before the sun comes up outside of smudgy windows. Sitting. The desk. The bed. The bed the desk. It’s funny the things we hold on to, for no particular reason, or no good reason.

Six Poems

by Jessica Reed

July 31, 2018

Perhaps we should begin in extreme heat
              or intemperate ice,                  in salt solutions,
              in drastic acid or radical alkaline,         in heavy metals
or in toxic waste—                    wherever life seems improbable

Done to Scale

by Michael Harris Cohen

July 24, 2018

First, an unsteady tree of clothing inside the door: the coat rack, heaped with jackets, scarfs and furs, most torn, buttons missing, some stained, all rarely worn as few ever go out—for what is outside the house but another house?