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Comprehension, If Not Closure: A Conversation with Riley Redgate
by Nathan Winer

May 19, 2022 Contributed By: Nathan Winer, Riley Redgate

Riley Redgate headshot

Learning to separate your own interests away from those feelings of, “I should be more like this, I should be more like that”—that’s going to be valuable forever. And not just in writing.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Featured Interviews, Fiction, Interviews Posted On: May 19, 2022

When All Your Seeds Fail
by Amanda Roth

May 16, 2022 Contributed By: Amanda Roth, Heather Hua

seeds fail amanda roth heather hua

Try compost – scraps / piled into a heap. The forgotten things / are begging for another life. Let’s say you could / get the dirt to sing.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: May 16, 2022

*
by Simon Perchik

May 12, 2022 Contributed By: Ryan Rusiecki, Simon Perchik

* Perchik Rusiecki

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

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: May 12, 2022

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

May 9, 2022 Contributed By: Ali Znaidi, Asma Jelassi, Heather Hua

Four Poems Jelassi Znaidi

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

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: May 9, 2022

Human Sacrifice
by Krista Leahy

May 5, 2022 Contributed By: Krista Leahy

Human Sacrifice

Wall, enemy, ally, shadow, tree, a toddler / given freedom to roam, requires one // banana-nut muffin, many hands, 56 / minutes to walk one Brooklyn city block.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: May 5, 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

Unbelong
by Mandira Pattnaik

April 28, 2022 Contributed By: Mandira Pattniak, Rosabel Rosalind

Unbelong Mandira Pattnaik Babka Sky Rosabel Rosalind

Did you see a hapless, hunted woman, baby in arms? Her stare’s hollow. // Ahead of her, there’s a slithering line beaded with nowhere people.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: April 28, 2022

2022 Flash Fiction Contest Results!

April 26, 2022

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.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: April 26, 2022

The Naked and The Damned
by Julia Sirmons

April 25, 2022 Contributed By: Julia Sirmons

The Naked and The Damned

“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.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture Posted On: April 25, 2022

While my Wife Is in the Hospital Recovering from a Stroke
by Richard-Yves Sitoski

April 21, 2022 Contributed By: Richard-Yves Sitoski, Ryan Rusiecki

While my Wife Is in the Hospital Recovering from a Stroke

There’s nothing to eat but fruit from baskets sent by friends // and I couldn’t care less about the fate of the world.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: April 21, 2022

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