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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Amy Sawyer, Bilal Shaw, Brian Kamsoke, Brian Satrom, C. Kubasta, Clarisse Francillon, Darren Demaree, David Bowen, David Macey, Devon Balwit, Divya Rajan, Donna Pucciani, Eric Shonkwiler, Erinn Seifert, Evan Baden, Ghalib, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Hedy Habra, Ian Haight, J. Kates, James Brunton, Jesse DeLong, Jesse Tangen-Mills, José Daniel García, Julian Cola, Karl-Heinz Ott, Kevin J.B. O'Connor, Leonard Kress, Liz Egan, M.A. Istvan Jr., Malcolm Cumming, Martial, Martyna Buliżańska, Matthew Guenette, Michelle Bailat-Jones, Mollie Boutell, Nicholas Manning, Nick Conrad, Pamela Miller, Peter Burzyński, Peter Woltemade, Robert Cowan, Robert Joe Stout, Robert Nazarene, Rush Rankin, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ballouk, Stephen Gibson, Tatiana Neshumova, Todd Osborne, Tony Barnstone

INTERVIEWS Eric Shonkwiler
interviewed by David Bowen
Power & Light
Juan Gelacio
interviewed by Robert Joe Stout
Invisible on Paper
ESSAYS Leonard Kress What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah?
Erinn Seifert Changing
FICTION Mollie Boutell Intimates
Malcolm Cumming Mere Anarchy
Liz Egan Sgt. Lawson
Brian Kamsoke Useful Things
POETRY Ruth Awad Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion

My Father Is the Sea, the Field, the Stone

My Father Dreams of a New Country

Devon Balwit Bike/Building
James Brunton Transplant
Nick Conrad Girondinsville
Robert Cowan Amaranthine Days
Jesse DeLong Though Poetry Predates Literacy, and the Sonnet Has Been Around Since the Thirteenth Century, It Took Me Only Ten Minutes to Butcher One

The Fundamental

Darren Demaree The Children at the Wedding #1

The Children at the Wedding #3

Stephen Gibson Japanese Sex Doll Erotica

Japanese Bondage Erotica

Japanese Tentacle Erotica

Matthew Guenette Inside Out
Hedy Habra Tesserae
Ian Haight Feather Bones of Wax

Detroit

M.A. Istvan Jr. On a Certain Sort of On and On
C. Kubasta The Covenant of User Agreeements
Nicholas Manning from Anti-Mantra
Pamela Miller Why I Don’t Write Haiku
Robert Nazarene Empire de la Mort
Kevin J.B. O’Connor The Great Frost
Todd Osborne Re:
Donna Pucciani Reclining Figures
Divya Rajan A House Is a Center Is a Sanctuary Is a Man
Rush Rankin Within
Amy Sawyer Inheritance
TRANSLATION Sergio Ballouk
translated by Julian Cola
Landfill

Statues

Martyna Buliżańska
translated by Peter Burzynski
rubella, misha

fasting: recourse

Martial
translated by David Macey
1.28

12.13

6.60

Clarisse Francillon
translated by Michelle Bailat-Jones
Saturday Evening
José Daniel García
translated by Jesse Tangen-Mills
Excerpts from shadowslongshoreman

Ghalib
translated by Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw
Wasteland

The Tulip

Give Me Lunacy at Least

Tatiana Neshumova
translated by J. Kates
Untitled
Letters of the Alphabet
Karl-Heinz Ott
translated by Peter Woltemade
from Silence at Last
Grzegorz Wróblewski
translated by Peter Burzynski
Android and an Anecdote

Until the End of Time

REVIEWS Brian Satrom Thousand Star Hotel
by Bao Phi
FEATURED
ARTIST
Evan Baden The _____ High School
Yearbook Project


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