I have been missing from this year’s spring.
Witness to the winter aconite and snowdrops, the first daffodils,
but not the tulips or hyacinths.
Featured Poetry
Absent
MAYDAY “Editors’ Choice Award” Interview with Winning Micro Chapbook Author Ja’net Danielo
An interview with the winning Micro Chapbook author Ja’net Danielo on the inspiration and process behind This Body I Have Tried to Write: “With these poems, I very much wanted to convey that illness, disability, loss, and grief are not physical and emotional circumstances that happen to a body but are ever-evolving processes held within the body.”
After 13 Years of Alzheimer’s, My Grandfather Spoke.
by Caleigh Shaw
The next morning, she imagined thousands of blooms the blue Melvin’s work shirts used to be.
[via negativa
by Erin Wilson
a loaf of bread + a loaf of bread
equaled your small body
a loaf of bread + a fire
equaled a bird in a wood stove
This Body I Have Tried to Write
by Ja’net Danielo
Who among us hasn’t wanted to kill the sweetest thing?
Motherhood and Mental Illness: On Blue by Erin Wilson
by Emilee Kinney
For a collection steeped in drowning, Wilson continuously keeps readers afloat, buoyed by the promise and ever-present force of a mother’s love.
2022 Micro-Chapbook Poetry Contest Results!
Congratulations to all our participants in the 2022 MAYDAY Micro-Chapbook contest!
drink yrself whole or corpse reviver #2
by nat raum
dry county: what hydrates more than
water? / whatever it is / will it bring back
feeling in your limbs / will it stay in your
stomach during the august photoshoot you
showed up to woefully hungover?
Aging, and Outside Again, and For Quite a While Laughing
by Steven Ostrowski
This morning he’d breathed
the death before death
that wakes us
Before Snow From a Blue Room
by Mary Moore
but it was only thought snow, and nothing
when it began, a thingless veil, a reign
of molecules, so we could overlook
the beauties and hazards of being
burdened and cold.
