photography by Kelli Connell
Contributed By: Kelli Connell
photography by Kelli Connell
Return to table of contents for Issue 10 Fall 2016.
When we decided to co-edit an issue of MAYDAY Magazine dedicated to nonfiction, we knew we wanted to see as wide a range as possible. We were particularly interested in work that pushes or blurs the boundaries…
I’m going to stop coming out in the usual I don’t want to offend you way. I’ll tell the next children’s librarian who asks me my husband’s name about the time a cop held my wife against…
I heard my hands were yellow, and in the lines I could feel deeper, like tea I never knew what any of that means if colors have smells then yellow lingered in front of my…
The blurred cypress has its own quiet math as you speed divine with the white tongue of a cloud descending to lick a strip mall. Motion is a means to forget, so that each fluorescent…
FEATURED ARTIST Glenn Brady It’s All Feel, My Dear INTERVIEWS M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen A Dragon in the Hollow Kelly Davio interviewed by Michael Schmeltzer Feeding One Another Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott A Multiplicity of Visions George Saunders […]
precursory questions
1. how many home videos did you keep?
2. how many seeped into adulthood, vhs tape wrinkled and blinking back at you the screen a reflection, skipping with white?
When I ask my freshmen to read Sontag, it seems her ambiguity throws them off. Or, perhaps the precision of her questions: What is a photograph anyway and what does it do; what does it do now—now that we are feathered in them? Perhaps images are not a covering but an invasion—we are pierced with […]