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Kirk Wilson
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Kirk Wilson
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Kirk Wilson’s story collection Out of Season will be published in late 2022 or early 2023 as the winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. His poetry collection Songbox was released in August by Trio House Press as the winner of the Trio Award. Kirk’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are widely published in literary journals and anthologies. His awards include an NEA Fellowship and prizes in all three genres, and his past publications include a poetry chapbook from Burning Deck press and a true crime book published in six editions in the US and UK. Kirk’s website is www.KirkWilsonBooks.com.

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Vol. 82
Conjunctions:82
Works & Days
Spring 2024
Bradford Morrow

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Wind Phone
by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
October 23, 2024
People like to believe they have influence over disasters, catastrophes, losses—by which they mean control—but that’s illusion, and she was done with illusion. Could she write that in her report? You’re all suffering under an illusion. Instead, she picked up the phone and texted: Island//illusion. Illusion//island. They sound the same when you say them enough. There’s a word for that, but I can’t remember it now. I can’t remember anything clearly. All my words are inverted and mirrored. edrorrim. See?
Three Conversations with the Apparition of Vallejo
by James McCorkle
October 16, 2024
Last night I was certain
pppyou were there with a gift
light balanced against shadow

fugitives move along fence lines
cities burningppp
we’re asked to send money
cities burn
where are the plans
there were no bells, no sirens, no warningpppthe cities burned
 
Nine Poems
by Delilah Silberman
October 9, 2024
Flattened stone floor, covered
in wooden slats, the portico
with columns and even arches,
not exactly the porch
the other house (our same floor
plan doubled into something else)
had across our common grass.