• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

MAYDAY

  • Culture
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Nonfiction
  • Translation
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • About
    • Submit
      • Contests
      • Contest Winners
      • MAYDAY:Black
    • Open Positions
    • Masthead
    • Contributors

Main Content

POETRY

* Perchik Rusiecki

*
by Simon Perchik

wobbling from some near-by breeze / reaching down as the hillside / where her shadow should be

Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest

MAYDAY Announces Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest

Submissions are open for the MAYDAY Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest! Deadline to submit is July 31.

FICTION

2022 Flash Fiction Contest Results!

MAYDAY’s March Madness tournament has come to an end. Congratulations to all sixteen of our finalists! From the start, there could be only one champion.

Boys on Bikes by Mark Horst

Cowards
by Siamak Vossoughi

It seemed like it was always Matt Eastman fighting somebody or Matt Ladreau fighting somebody or the two of them fighting each other.

NONFICTION

Saturday Level and Full, 2021, oil on canvas, 48x60 by Elizabeth Johnson

The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas

I am told I was a happy, mischievous kid who smeared peanut butter on walls. Insatiably curious, I would sit down next to strangers on buses and start up conversations. I have heard that I liked to make people laugh. I don’t remember any of this.

Patricia Feinman sculpture

Smoking with Art
by Patricia Feinman

Our hair and every piece of clothing we owned were impregnated with the stench of smoke—we stank of smoke—but we didn’t care, because we loved smoking.

TRANSLATION

Four Poems Jelassi Znaidi

Four Poems
by Asma Jelassi, translated from Arabic by Ali Znaidi

we’ve started to disassemble the land mines / and plant roses and poems instead.

Cried Because Told Me

I Cried Because You Told Me
by Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, translated from Arabic by Essam M. Al-Jassim

I recall the prickly pear shrub that never failed to pierce me as I tucked my skinny body behind it, trying to hide…

REVIEWS

Lovebirds cover

Pinioned Wings: Love, Violence, and Spirituality in Hananah Zaheer’s Lovebirds
by Emma Daley

In her new chapbook, Lovebirds, Zaheer presents 12 vivid flash stories about relationships, faith, violence, loss, and desire.

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Sellouts 1985: Patrick Süskind’s Perfume
by Brianna Di Monda

By co-opting the style and tropes of the Romantics and applying them to an ironic magical realism story, Süskind created a postmodern text liberated from the delusion of originality.

CULTURE

Race Against Time: How White Fear of Genetic Annihilation Fuels Abortion Bans
by Carla Bell

Still, in the foreseeable future the country will be, as Elliot puts it, “mostly brown.”

The Naked and The Damned

The Naked and The Damned
by Julia Sirmons

“He was soon to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany,” reads the tagline for Luchino Visconti’s 1969 film The Damned. It’s an improbable caption for the image below it: a man in drag.

Primary Sidebar

Recently Published

  • *
    by Simon Perchik
  • Four Poems
    by Asma Jelassi, translated from Arabic by Ali Znaidi
  • MAYDAY Announces Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest
  • Human Sacrifice
    by Krista Leahy
  • Race Against Time: How White Fear of Genetic Annihilation Fuels Abortion Bans
    by Carla Bell

Trending

  • MAYDAY Announces Poetry Micro Chapbook Contest
  • Eight Contemporary Female Irish Artists to Fall In Love With Immediately
    by Aya Kusch
  • Four Poems
    by Asma Jelassi, translated from Arabic by Ali Znaidi
  • I Know Who Orville Peck Is
    by Robin Gow
  • Human Sacrifice
    by Krista Leahy
  • *
    by Simon Perchik
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Footer

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Business


Reprint Rights
Privacy Policy
Archive

Engage


Open Positions
Donate
Contact Us

Copyright © 2022 · New American Press

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.