MAYDAY

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 5 Spring 2012

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FEATURED
ARTIST
Sheng Qi
NONFICTION
Helen DeWitt
Alan Heathcock Never Not a Writer an interview with Alan Heathcock conducted by Okla Elliott
Amy Holwerda
FICTION
WinLo333
Gerard Marconi
How the Dead Are Buried
Deena Metzger
Feral
Suzanne Richardson Moon Garden
Scott Tucker
My Life as an Eastern European Art Film
POETRY
 Alyse Bensel
Butterfly Balloon
Neil Carpathios The Future of America
Helen Degen Cohen The End of Snow
Thom Dawkins One Theory of Hell (Albrecht Dürer’s Harrowing)
Richard Fein
Letters and Spirit
Andrew Galan Wrong Side of the Road (An Autumn Poem)
Brandi George

Love Poem to the Light before Sleep
Liam Hysjulien

On Learning of My Father’s Illness [November 22nd, 2011]
Dana Kroos

How to Drink Tea in the Colonies

Sarah Marshall

As the Crow Flies
Alejandro Méndez

Gift for Languages
     translated by Laura Chalar

Under the Linden Trees
translated by Laura Chalar
Christopher Munde Nymph: Stage I
Mark Neely

Katherine: Opening Argument

Aleksey Porvin

Untitled #1
translated by Peter Golub

Untitled #2
translated by Peter Golub
Liz Robbins

Who’s Driving
William B. Robison
Clean Hands
Lauren Schmidt

Elimination Half Life

Gridlock

The Men Who Grow from Curbs
Shelby Stephenson
Nin’s Poem: A Bipolar Memoir
John Sibley Williams

The Language of Shadows

What Is Light?
Michael T. Young

Study for Infatuation

The Voice of Water

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

Filed Under: Issues

Further Reading

GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING – WHAT IS THE PLACE OF POLITICS IN LIT MAGS?

Okla Elliott: Since we’ve hit economics and corrective missions, it might be appropriate to talk about the place of politics in literature.  It strikes me that American authors are so often unwilling to engage with anything political, whereas European, Latin American, and African authors do so almost constantly.  I’ve even gotten the sense from many writers […]

Like the Wine of Our Red Alaska by Amy Holwerda

The first night we meet outside the classroom, you say you like two things: whisky and music. You hustle me into the car, slide a disc into the player, and roll the windows up against the storm. You say we should pretend that we don’t know each other, pretend that you don’t even know my […]

Valley State
by Reilly Weed

This story was a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Fiction Prize   The first letter came on a Monday morning; Patty knew it was Monday because her head hurt from Sunday drink specials. When she opened her eyes, the room spun like it did every morning. “Holy shit!” came her brother’s voice from the kitchen. […]