Contributors

Sylvia Legris

Contributor History

Three Poems, Conjunctions:49
Six Poems, Online 08-19-2009
Five Poems, Online 02-28-2012
Two Poems, Online 02-07-2017
Viscum Album, Conjunctions:75

Biography

Sylvia Legris’s poetry collections include The Hideous Hidden and the forthcoming Garden Physic (both New Directions) and Nerve Squall (Coach House Books), which won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize. Writing from her collection Pneumatic antiphonal has appeared in New American Writing 27 and 26, Prairie Fire (Winnipeg), and Conjunctions:49.

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In Print

Conjunctions:75

Dispatches from Solitude

Fall 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

From The Hölderliniae

by Nathaniel Tarn

March 3, 2021

The roses never looked so good before we gained a dormant garden
help. But roses burn in just one day of this appalling desert heat. An
effervescent sun burning the roses as I must wish it would inflame all
features of the abhorrent politicians plunging a nation into ruin ... and archaeology! We look in vain for faces from a human past.

Five Poems

by Rae Armantrout

February 24, 2021

Then geese cycle madly
across a pond
like Wile E. Coyote
three feet past the cliff—

catch lift
and join the great migration.

Moving Out

by Michael Holt

February 17, 2021

We’re coming home from school, walking up the hill, Marco in front, his head down, his hands buried in the pockets of his jeans, Laurel behind him, the collar of her shirt spilling out of her sweater like a tropical plant, then Samantha, agitated, as if struggling to free several birds from the snags in her hair, and finally Peter, our little brother, who lags behind us and sings:

and all the people said
what a shame that he’s dead