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Taisia Kitaiskaia
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Taisia Kitaiskaia
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Taisia Kitaiskaia is the author of four books: The Nightgown and Other Poems; Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, a collaboration with artist Katy Horan and an NPR Best Book of 2017; and Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles as well as its follow-up, Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times: From Ask Baba Yaga. She is the recipient of fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers and Yaddo.

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Vol. 83
Conjunctions:83
Revenants, The Ghost Issue
Fall 2024
Coedited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow

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A Polyphonic Portfolio of Language-Centric Writing
by Rae Armantrout, Diane Williams, Brenda Hillman, Colin Channer, Kathryn Davis, Nathaniel Mackey
November 27, 2024
Rae Armantrout   EXPRESSION   Give me your spurt   of verbs, [...]
Fredo and the Rain Club
by Jonathan Carroll
November 20, 2024
As a big surprise for her birthday, I gave in and bought the dog she’d been wanting for a long time. A frisky little caramel-colored dachshund she immediately named Fredo after the weak Corleone brother in The Godfather, her favorite movie. I thought it an odd name but it was her choice and her dog.
The Family Night Watchman
Translated from Chinese by Deanna Ren
by Can Xue
November 13, 2024
In the South, on the nights of a sweltering summer, we children like to sleep in the middle of the road. No cars pass by overnight; everyone plops their water-cooled bamboo beds outside, and the moment of excitement arrives. Ah, the corpse drivers! Ah, the Spider Demon King! Ah, the Milky Way!