05
09
10
13
16
23
29
32
33
39
Return to table of contents for PRACTICES, POWER & THE PUBLIC SPHERE
Further Reading
Erasure Poetry as Anti-Imperialism: Chris Santiago Interviewed by Xander Gershberg
by Chris Santiago
In April of 2025, Milkweed Editions will release Chris Santiago’s highly anticipated second poetry collection Small Wars Manual, which Kaveh Akbar calls “a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I’ll be coming back to the rest of my life.” Alongside MAYDAY’s feature of three poems included in the collection (“6.9,” […]
MICHAEL ROBBINS’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”
I prize wit and brio in reviews—style—more than confirmation of my own aesthetic judgments. Manny Farber on John Wayne: “the termite actor focusing only on a tiny present area, nibbling at it with engaging professionalism and a hipster sense of how to sit in a chair leaned against the wall.” It is more difficult to […]
automedon with the horses of achilles by henri regnualt is hanging on a blood red wall
by Lip Manegio
in the museum gallery. a woman sits down on the bench gently, says something to another. low enough i can’t hear but it gets a half smile, a soft bloom of chuckle. they have known each other for years i think, as i voyeur the space between their bodies: push and pull, an easy togetherness. […]
