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:69

Being Bodies

Fall 2017
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Black Tongue

by Rita Bullwinkel

April 17, 2018

There was a socket in the wall my mother told me not to touch. The wire innards of the plug spilled out of the unguarded hole. The wires looked like black spaghetti.

Doubts

by Pilar Fraile Amador
Translated by Heather D. Davis

April 10, 2018

“And you say they’ve been here how long?”

“We don’t know exactly. Our estimate is a month, approximately. It’s difficult to be sure, we don’t keep tabs on our employees, so it could well be longer, a month and a few days, perhaps.”

Walks Scribbled over Scribbled over Walks

by Brandon Krieg

April 3, 2018

Cold hole in my right pant
through which
                        grass’s eyelash brushes my calf,

flirty infinite