Contributors

Lucas Southworth

Contributor History

Same Life / Different One, Online 02-08-2008
An Introduction to James Gatrell’s Journals and Letters, Online 10-23-2012
Something Human, Online 08-01-2017
We Are All Breakable, Ready to Break, Conjunctions:74
We Are All Breakable, Ready to Break — A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel's Kin: The Monsters Issue, Online 06-22-2020
We Could Have Been Kids Together, Conjunctions:77

Biography

Lucas Southworth’s first fiction collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun (University of Massachusetts Press), won AWP’s Grace Paley Prize. Recent work has appeared or will appear in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XLVI (forthcoming in 2022).

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In Print

Conjunctions:80

Ways of Water

Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Rachel

by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

September 20, 2023

The Rachel stands tuned
to multiplicities,
aslant in a territory of longing,
where she becomes foreign.

What has she found?
She listens, acknowledges another sound,
diffuse, multiple,
pulsing thought, oscillations, whisperings,
never only one.

The Whorled

by Zachary Gary

September 13, 2023

I had yet to discover the source of that star, it came and it passed but from where it sprang and then fell to fading remained a mystery. In cycling its light lent its powers to coloring my tablecloth a lighter shade, relieving pigment from its duty to darken, except for those spots where I placed my bottles and cups, shielding only parts of the piece from fading, threads left closer to their original hues hewed to others abandoned as wraiths to their fates, a darker ring the mark of those who stayed behind.

Five Poems

by Donald Revell

September 6, 2023

Where the trees blackened, I saw,

Quickly, three deer lean into goldenness.

It seems, although wildfires rage

Out of control, this world remembers

Some portion of its first purposes:

Superfluous beauty