How to use it in a sentence. Elon Musk is such a cryborg when we critique neuralink. Don’t be a cryborg about it— just fucking provide access. After Stephen Hawking died all the cryborgs came out like “he’s walking in heaven.” Enough with your cryborg protest. We don’t care that you think the word “ableist” […]
Poetry
Ashley Shew Just Invented the Word Cryborg
2021 MAYDAY 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 […]
WHAT MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME
by Michael Meyerhofer
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 […]
The Craft of Knives
by José Pedro Leite, translated from the Portuguese by Richard Simas
In the middle of winter, I discovered an invincible summer inside me. -Albert Camus (from Part III of “The Invention of Summer”) My idea […]
During the Pandemic, I watch Caddyshack Again and Again
by Christina Olson
This poem was selected as a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry Prize. My favorite part is when Danny swings his body down the fire escape, tippy-toes onto the porch railing, throws a leg over the old ten-speed with the handlebars like ram horns, and pedals off to the country club. Eighteen and invincible. Danny […]
Spellbound—The Witch Discovers Magic
by Liz Kay
The first spring lamb was born blind, and before the days grew full long, three women died in their birthing beds-one we buried with her belly still large, the babe stuck tight inside her. Midwife said there must be a witch in our midst, twisting shut the wombs with some black, black magic. She made […]
The Witch Introduces Herself
by Liz Kay
Everyone wants to know about the children, how they are and if they made it out. What does it matter now? Can you see there is no happy here, not ever after all? I, too, was a child once and wrestled my way out. I was one who was not devoured. Look who I am […]
Interview with Liz Kay
by Katherine Fallon
KATHERINE FALLON: Liz Kay’s poems have appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Nimrod, Willow Springs, The New York Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Redactions, and Sugar House Review. She is the author of The Witch Tells the Story and Makes it True (Quarter Press) the chapbook, Something to Help Me Sleep (dancing […]
One Who Was Not Devoured: A Review of Liz Kay’s The Witch Tells the Story and Makes It True
by Katherine Fallon
It is no secret we are supposed to despise the witch in the traditional fairy tale, but while brutal, this witch is not lonely, nor is she pathetic, and we question whether her violence is unwarranted.
Garçon
by A. Shaikh
This poem was selected as the winner of the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A. SHAIKH (he/she/they) is a queer immigrant poet raised in the tangerine summers of Texas. They are the 2021 winner of THE BOILER PRIZE, an inaugural fellow of the Strange Tools Writer’s Workshop, and an Aquarius […]
