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"Poetry is our essential language, and it is as essential to me as breathing." Celebrating the release of Conjunctions:84, We Love All We Voices by sharing the piece that opens the issue, a lecture by Arthur Sze!
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Tomáš Malík, Green Aurora Borealis, 2019.
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This week online, we’re sharing a letter from Julia Elliott that was written as a tribute for a farewell celebration at Bard. As many of you know, Bard is ending our institutional support, and we are embarking on a new, independent chapter in challenging times.
Honored to have published this Edgar! Thank you @mysterywriters.bsky.social and congratulations @erikakrouse.bsky.social !
On International Workers’ Day, we received a fitting surprise: “Lords of the Wind,” a story by Yxta Maya Murray that spans several United Farm Workers protests, was awarded a Pushcart Prize. We’re thrilled to share it online today!
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He caught up to him at the corner of La Posada. And that’s where he, you know, hit him. With a flashlight, on the back of his head.
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On every Earth Day, we think of Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies. This year, we’ve decided to share the piece that opens the issue, which remembers Brazil nut foragers and eco-martyrs Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva and Zé Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva.
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The days stand like angels in blue and gold, incomprehensible, above the ring of annihilation.
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Next week, Bard College celebrates thirty-five years as Conjunctions’ publisher with two special events, including a reading featuring Forrest Gander. To mark the occasion, we’ve made Gander’s first publication in Conjunctions available online.
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Shibuya
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"He knows where the pasture cools, where the wild fires. He knows where the weather’s happening. He has ten strong cows, a dog. The cows he knows by name, the trees he knows by name. The hill—for he stands on a hill—is shrubbed with conifers."
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A huge thank you to everyone who made our first ever Conjunctions Benefit Salon a night to remember! Special thanks to:
Last night, at our very first benefit salon, we raised a glass, raised funds for the future, and celebrated the amazing contributors who’ve kept Conjunctions going for more than 40 years. One of those many amazing contributors is Peter Gizzi. Check out his work!
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Thomas Baldwin, from Airopaidia, 1786.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, a firebrand story by THE Margaret Atwood, which was originally published in Conjunctions:83. Told through only dialogue, a ghost avenges the girl she was by reviving, in death, a broken promise of “I’ll love you forever.” 🖤 🖤 🖤
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“Hello, Steve. Oops, did I startle you? It’s okay, you can put your PJ bottoms on. I’m not peeking.”
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NEW this week online, a memorable piece from the archive in honor of Rick Moody's upcoming reading. Hope you can join us on the 31st! conjunctions.com/articles/she...
Join us for a reading with Rick Moody! Monday, March 31 4 p.m. Weis Cinema, Bard College conjunctions.com/announcement...
We asked our Revenants contributors what haunts them as writers, but we also want to know what haunts you. The past? The future? Semicolons?
For those who couldn’t join us for Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry’s reading, we’re sharing an interview with Kelly published in Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens. Topics include Star Trek, first contact, and other aspects of a literary life. 👽 buff.ly/4ihwDVu Photo Copyright Adrianne Mathiowetz
Yesterday's one-of-a-kind reading of "The Family Arcana," a story in cards. Thank you to jedediahberry.bsky.social, kellylink.bsky.social, and everyone who joined us for such a fantastic evening! ✨
"Both kellylink.bsky.social ’s The Book of Love and jedediahberry.bsky.social 's The Naming Song were just named two of the five finalists for the prestigious LA Times Book Award in Sci-Fi/Fantasy for 2025. It will be wonderful to congratulate them both in person at Bard.” buff.ly/4ihsy3C
Writers Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry ’99 to Give Reading at Bard College on March 3
Award-winning writers Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry ’99 will give a reading on Monday, March 3, at 4:00 pm in Weis Cinema in the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College. The event, which is…
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Looking forward to reading with Kelly Link at my alma mater next month, in the very location I once played Baron Hardup of Hardup Hall for the Victorian Studies Department's presentation of a Cinderella pantomime.
@conjunctions.bsky.social · last yr.Join us in Annandale for a reading by Kelly Link & Jedediah Berry! Monday, March 3 4 p.m. Weis Cinema, Bard College
NEW this week online, a city made from nine concentric rings and a law restricting citizens from migrating between rings only twice. https://buff.ly/4b6H0Jn
Join us in Annandale for a reading by Kelly Link & Jedediah Berry! Monday, March 3 4 p.m. Weis Cinema, Bard College
In celebration of Erika Krouse's 2025 Edgar Award nom, we’re sharing an excerpt of her story "Eat My Moose" this week online! (Also, check out her new book! 😍 ) https://buff.ly/411lzoj
NEW this week online, “Finally,” by Patricia Smith, a revenge story told from the point of view of a racist police officer as he is confronted by the ghosts of those who have been murdered by other racist police officers. https://buff.ly/3CGSsP3
"You have a heart of starlings, a heart of their cacophony; of this, you are sure." https://buff.ly/3PPw0Gw
