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Search Results for: elizabeth johnson

Winter by Jasna Dimitrijević
translated from the Serbian by John K. Cox

November 7, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jasna Dimitrijević, John K. Cox

"Iota" by Elizabeth Johnson

Since I moved away to a bigger city, I seldom come back home. Only for holidays and the anniversaries of a few people’s deaths.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: November 7, 2022

Mr. Z by Grzegorz Wróblewski
Translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński

July 21, 2022 Contributed By: Laurie Marshall, Peter Burzyński

Indoor Pets 3 by Laurie Marshall

Mr. Z opened the door to a preacher of the One Truth: the man in a hat looked around the room.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: July 21, 2022

The Closet
by Julia Halprin Jackson

July 7, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Julia Halprin Jackson

Split View by Elizabeth Johnson

There were two beds in Little’s room. Put back to back they were as long as his father was tall. The walls were covered in a light floral print.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: July 7, 2022

Six Poems by Anna Matysiak
from Inbred Machines: (The Difference and the Repetition), translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński

June 23, 2022 Contributed By: Anna Matysiak, Elizabeth Johnson, Peter Burzyński

Exit County by Elizabeth Johnson

the queen wasp / opens her first pair of arms. / she convulses in the right chamber like / how nails sanctify a board.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 23, 2022

We Will Survive
by Rolla Barraq, translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

June 2, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jeffrey Clapp, Muntather Alsawad, Rolla Barraq

We Will Survive Johnson Barraq

Death was passing through the pores of waiting / like fresh messages from the sky

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 2, 2022

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

May 2, 2022 Contributed By: Abdulqader S. Al-Ghamdi, Elizabeth Johnson, Essam M. Al-Jassim

Cried Because Told Me

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

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: May 2, 2022

The Trembling Nasties
by William Luvaas

April 18, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, William Luvaas

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

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.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: April 18, 2022

Year-End Wrap-Up: The MAYDAY Editors’ Books of the Year, 2022

February 2, 2023

Open books layered over each other cover the entire page.

This year, we’d like to specially feature our amazing friends at Brilliant Books, who style themselves “your local, long distance bookstore.” Though they feature a brick-and-mortar store in Traverse City, Michigan, Brilliant Books distinguish themselves as being one of the largest independent online book retailers in the country, and a crucial example of success in […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Culture, Nonfiction Posted On: February 2, 2023

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GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING (full roundtable discussion)

January 1, 2010 Contributed By: Aaron Burch, Anne McPeak, Ben George, Jacob Knabb, Jodee Stanley, Okla Elliott, Raymond Hammond

GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING What happens to lit mags in a recession? moderated by Okla Elliott responses by Jacob Knabb, Ben George, Aaron Burch, Raymond Hammond, Anne McPeak, and Jodee Stanley   Okla Elliott: Everyone is talking about the current economic situation in the US.  How is this affecting literary journals, and what are the […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Nonfiction Posted On: January 1, 2010

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