MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 5 Spring 2012

April 1, 2012 Contributed By: Alan Heathcock, Alejandro Méndez, Aleksey Porvin, Alyse Bensel, Amy Holwerda, Andrew Galan, Brandi George, Christopher Munde, Dana Kroos, Deena Metzger, Gerard Marconi, Helen Degen Cohen, Helen DeWitt, John Sibley Williams, Laura Chalar, Lauren Schmidt, Liam Hysjulien, Liz Robbins, Mark Neely, Michael T. Young, Neil Carpathios, Okla Elliott, Peter Golub, Richard Fein, S. P. MacIntyre, Sarah Marshall, Scott Tucker, Shelby Stephenson, Sheng Qi, Suzanne Richardson, Thom Dawkins, William B. Robison, WinLo333

FEATURED ARTIST	Sheng Qi	Painting without Colour: A Gallery
NONFICTION	Helen DeWitt	Experimental, Interstitial, and Hybrid an interview with Helen DeWitt conducted by S. P. MacIntyre
	Alan Heathcock	Never Not a Writer an interview with Alan Heathcock conducted by Okla Elliott
	Amy Holwerda	Like the Wine of Our Red Alaska
FICTION	WinLo333	Sob Stories
	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

LOVERS IN WINTER by Steven Klepetar

You can tell they are saying goodbye that distance has already swallowed them up, by the way they linger on this cold beach, bare feet stung by the rag end of waves. She is weeping and he would if he could. The wind must sound lonely to them and the hungry gulls a provocation about […]

TIM ATKINS’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”

As a Buddhist, I take the precept of Right Speech (“And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, and from idle chatter”) seriously. As a reviewer for onedit, I only write on pieces about which I feel enthusiastic because life is too short to be stabbing yourself repeatedly with the shit end of […]

MARY
by Rachael Green

This story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The paint had chipped off of one of Mary’s eyes and the other had faded and begun to fleck off in places, mutating her maternal gaze into something more sinister, full of agony. I held eye contact with those eyes or, the one eye and the plaster […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 5 Spring 2012

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