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WHAT MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME
by Michael Meyerhofer

June 16, 2021 Contributed By: Michael Meyerhofer

Foldable Chairs

This poem was selected as a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The older you get, the less likely someone will want to see you naked. Stretch less. Don’t give into the desire to stroll through walls because it’s a long fall to the earth’s core. Remember that […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Poetry Posted On: June 16, 2021

STATE OF THE UNION
by Michael Meyerhofer

January 18, 2021 Contributed By: Michael Meyerhofer

The Market

All the news is talking about the lack of surgical masks and ice cream trucks for the dead, how many grandfathers  need help to breathe, but today, I can’t seem to stop wondering how oranges smell when they’re burning.  For that, too, is something I’ve never known, having missed my one chance to walk a […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: January 18, 2021

WATCHING MY MOTHER BAKE
by Michael Meyerhofer

January 18, 2021 Contributed By: Michael Meyerhofer

Pie

Strangest of all was the knife, how gingerly she pushed it through    the soft raw crust of the pie  freshly-formed on the oven’s surface,   preheat already rising in waves,  her glance warning me not to touch—   the same woman who decided, a week before my seventh birthday,   to have me circumcised […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: January 18, 2021

No Oasis
by Michael Meyerhofer

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Michael Meyerhofer

My mother and I went to a music store one day when I was nine or ten, skipping school because of a nervous stomach. She’d promised to buy me the sheet music for Man of La Mancha because I’d heard it in a commercial, liked it, and my father who was teaching me free weights had placed […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 1, 2014

2021 MAYDAY Fiction and Poetry Prize Winners

June 17, 2021 Contributed By: A. Shaikh, Haley Kennedy

2021 MD Fiction and Poetry Prize Winners

We’re excited to announce the results of the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry and Fiction Prizes! The winners each received $1,000 and broadsides of their work will be available soon. Submissions for the 2022 prizes will open in the spring. Judges to be announced. 2021 MAYDAY POETRY PRIZE Winner: “Garçon,” by A. Shaikh. Judge: Jacques Rancourt. Finalists […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Fiction, Poetry Posted On: June 17, 2021

Contest Winners

MAYDAY FICTION CONTESTS 2022 March Madness Flash Fiction Winner: “How We Were Born” by Lucy Zhang Second Place: “Parts I Know” by Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera Third Place: “No Story” by Himan Heidari and “A Cow Stood in a Field” By Louise Bierig 2021 Winner: “Shapeless,” by Haley Kennedy. Judge: Kali Wallace. Finalists included “Paradise” by […]

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Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

Issue 8 Summer 2014 HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS received the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has also been accorded a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has most recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Oxford American, Waccamaw, and Southern […]

Filed Under: Contributor Bios Posted On: July 1, 2014

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

EDITORS‘ INTRODUCTION Paul Crenshaw & Okla Elliott Special Nonfiction Issue FEATURED ARTICLE David Kirby photos by Barbara Hamby Who Made That Wooden Horse, and What’s It Doing on Our Beach? What Greece Needs Now ESSAYS Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams Letter to Laurena Amy Gigi Alexander From Lost to Loved in Bihar Robert Cowan Close Call […]

Filed Under: Issues Posted On: July 1, 2014

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