News and a new issue:

"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!

NEW this week online, seven poems by Andrew Maxwell!

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.

"Memory lies between rhythm."

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!

April is for poetry. conjunctions.com/articles/kir...

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.

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.

"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."

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!

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.” 🖤 🖤 🖤

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...

"In our country, we know that everything is true, what anyone says or thinks." buff.ly/mj4arnT

We asked our Revenants contributors what haunts them as writers, but we also want to know what haunts you. The past? The future? Semicolons?

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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

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.

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

Five artworks. Five poems. One Chris Tysh. https://buff.ly/4hVdf07

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

Six poems by Sandra Meek, NEW this week online! https://buff.ly/3WicwxF

"I couldn't find the words, because it wasn't made of words..." https://buff.ly/4ahdIYc

Today is pub day for both THE FORGER'S REQUIEM and my illustrated essay on lithub.com, "A Brief History of Literary Fakes and Frauds" which covers forgeries of everyone from Dante to Cormac McCarthy. Hope you enjoy the reads, and no fraudsters be. lithub.com/the-forgers-...

Congratulations to an emotional PETER GIZZI winner of this year’s Eliot Prize. We’re proud to have published some of the poems in this amazing collection in The Poetry Review. We salute you!

So many friends on this list! Can't wait to read their new work! Bradford Morrow Edmund White Kevin Young Ceslaw Milosz Edward Gorey Shane McCrae Paul Lisicky Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Karen Russell Ben Okri Stephen Graham Jones Lynne Tillman Julia Elliott Geoff Dyer Jamaica Kincaid

Though it’s now officially winter, little by little, the late afternoons are filling with sunlight. Your generous contributions over the holidays have given us a similar feeling of hope. Each gift of $25, $100, and $1,000 has inched us closer to our goal of independently publishing Conjunctions:85.

Two more late-breaking specfic stories I just read & want to add to my 2024 best-of-the-year thread. 🧵(19/18) Both in @conjunctions.bsky.social: • 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼, "Endlings" (issue #83) • 𝗬𝘅𝘁𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗮 𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘆, "Lords of the Wind" (issue #82)

New year, new website. Cheers to 2025! https://buff.ly/3P6zPXC

2025 will be big for us—after 33 years at Bard, we'll be producing our fall issue independently. We need your help to make this happen. So before you pop the champagne, please make a donation and remember to write "Conjunctions" in the notes. Cheers to another year! https://buff.ly/4e0gbGU

Your gift x 2! Donate before January 1st, and any gift you give to Conjunctions will be matched up to 10K! https://buff.ly/4e0gbGU (Remember to write "Conjunctions" in the notes!)

Match your gift, double your impact! Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, every tax-deductible donation will be matched up to $10K through December 31st! Help ensure our independent future this holiday! https://buff.ly/4e0gbGU (Remember to write "Conjunctions" in the notes!)

Wow! What an unexpected honor for my essay, "In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane" to be selected as one of Lit Hub's "Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024: The Best Writing at the Site This Year, According to the Editors." lithub.com/our-favorite...

Accessible. Navigable. Beautiful. NEW this week online, our website! Join us in thanking the incredible Everything Studio who designed this exceptional home for our work! https://buff.ly/3P6zPXC

Don’t let us ghost. Double your donation with this holiday matching grant! Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, we are able to double any tax-deductible donation up to $10K! https://buff.ly/4e0gbGU (Remember to write “Conjunctions” in the notes!)

Just received my first copy of THE FORGER'S REQUIEM and here it stands alongside its younger siblings on the kitchen table where the trilogy was written! Huge gratitude to everyone at @groveatlantic.bsky.social for their amazing & exemplary support. Publishes soon! Opening line: "We all die alive."

POV: You're a spirit floating with other spirits, clustered like shadowy soap bubbles resting on the ceiling. https://buff.ly/49wDqrm

Another peek beyond the veil and into our fabulous ghost issue!

New online this week, contributors of Revenants, The Ghost Issue share their closest encounters with ghosts, the spookiest stories of their hometowns, and the most haunted places they’ve ever been. https://buff.ly/3OvWpIw

Submittable is open through December 15! https://buff.ly/3QnOAX4