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MAYDAY Staff Poll: Best “Break Up With the Job” Films

March 23, 2023

Woman with orange long sleeve top. Both arms up making rock and roll signs with her hands. Still from the movie STICK IT.

The MAYDAY staff propose their favorite break-up-with-the-job films and TV shows. Celebrate spring by quitting! Or, rather, vicariously quitting through “Office Space.”

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Nonfiction, Nonfiction Posted On: March 23, 2023

Baba Yaga and the Bird
by Sophie Panzer

February 13, 2023 Contributed By: Rebecca Pyle, Sophie Panzer

Aerial interpretation of the ground with tan background, white and grey rectangle right of center and black, red and orange lines surrounding it.

Baba Yaga lives deep in the Hudson Valley in a house on chicken legs. She studied sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design back in the ’50s and transformed the stilts holding the home up over her backyard pond.  Her lot is surrounded by an ancient fence studded with bleached skulls—deer and squirrel bones […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Fiction Posted On: February 13, 2023

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

This Body I Have Tried to Write
by Ja’net Danielo

October 17, 2022 Contributed By: Ja'net Danielo, Trinh Mai

This Body I Have Tried to Write

Who among us hasn’t wanted to kill the sweetest thing?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: October 17, 2022

A Cow Stood In the Field
by Louise Bierig

May 23, 2022 Contributed By: Louise Bierig

cow field louise bierig

A cow stood in the field. Amanda didn’t hesitate, but walked right over. She was paying $75 an hour to hug this cow, why hesitate? It would be her first hug in over a year. 

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Fiction, Fiction, Uncategorized Posted On: May 23, 2022

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

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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 J.H. 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

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