Conjunctions

13/07/2025

We were very saddened to learn that the great independent press publisher, John Martin, founder of Black Sparrow Press, and a huge inspiration to our own founding editor, Bradford Morrow, who lived in Santa Barbara at the time, has passed. He was a friend and a titan, a Christian Scientist with a taste for writers who (some of them) preferred to walk on the wild side (Bukowski comes first to mind), and brought his discoveries to the world wrapped in the beautiful covers designed by his wife, Barbara. Rest in peace, John, and thanks from generations of us who have learned from you and always admired your vision.

11/06/2025

Online this week, news and a new issue:
https://conjunctions.com/announcement/conjunctions-summer-break

04/06/2025

"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!

I believe poetry has a crucial role to play in our lives. It helps us slow down and deepen our attention; it helps us uncover, discover things we didn’t know and things we didn’t know we already knew, things that we couldn’t articulate until we experienced them in a poem. A poem communicates f...

28/05/2025

NEW this week online, seven poems by Andrew Maxwell!

Lavender flowers already will scatter as lavishly scatter at twilight. Your tongue which already will elsewhere be given. To speak of

21/05/2025

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. Your generous donations are crucial in making this dream a reality.

We’ll be showcasing some of Julia’s fiction on our homepage, but we wanted to share her letter too because it so beautifully illustrates why we do what we do and why we aspire to continue.

We know that with the recent abysmal NEA news many worthwhile literary organizations are asking for your support right now. We thank you for donating to Conjunctions what you can! ❤️

With the publication of our spring issue in June 2025, Conjunctions:84, We Love All We Voices, Bard College is stepping down as our publisher. Yet, Conjunctions remains as vital as ever. Our plan is to continue publishing the journal beyond the auspices of Bard, as we did for many years before the c...

14/05/2025

"Memory lies between rhythm."

Adrian Castro is a poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist. He is the author of Cantos to Blood & Honey, Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time, and Handling Destiny (all Coffee House) and has been published in many literary anthologies including Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology and the N...

07/05/2025

Honored to have published this Edgar! Thank you Mystery Writers of America and congratulations Erika Krouse!

All Winners Please select a column to search in. Please type in something to search for. Search: Total Records Found: 1134, showing 100 per page Award YearAward CategoryTitleAuthor's NamePublisher/ProducerNotes 2025 Best Novel The In Crowd Charlotte Vassell Penguin Random House - Doubleday 2025 Best...

07/05/2025

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!

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.

30/04/2025

April is for poetry.

No one leaves the house anymore, not from work, from imagination. “Distant wars make me feel like a bad person.” To confess is to break one’s teeth, in Kurdish. No one lives within their mental map of others’ futures. “My husband still has his baby fat at fifty!” What’s faith? None of ...

23/04/2025

On every Earth Day, for the last six years, we think of Conjunctions:73, Earth Elegies and the prescient, urgent, mournful, and hopeful work that fills its pages. This year, we’ve decided to share the piece that opens the issue, “Fallen Martyrs, Felled Trees” by Rob Nixon, which remembers Brazil nut foragers and eco-martyrs Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva and Zé Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva.

One fall evening, I was driving through Wisconsin’s soya fields, drifting along in the half dark, listening to the BBC World Service, when a voice emerged fromthe ether to galvanizemy attention. The voice started strongly in Spanish then faded as the interviewer translated the man’s words.

16/04/2025

Next week, Bard College celebrates thirty-five years as Conjunctions’ publisher with two special events, including a reading featuring Forrest Gander and other exciting guests. To mark the occasion, we’ve made Gander’s first publication in Conjunctions available online. “Ginko” was originally published in the spring of 1988.

https://conjunctions.com/articles/gingko/

These events are free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

09/04/2025

"The richest man lives in France: his name is Arnaud.

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."

NEW online, fiction by Tran Hang My!

He tells me Madam Faucher makes it at his request (he tells me that hers is the best, but it’s his cows, the butter from his pasture, that makes it so good).