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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Alex Cigale, Amanda Sarasien, Anna Leahy, Arne Weingart, Artur Azevedo, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Circe Maia, Dariel Suarez, David Armstrong, David Kirby, Elizabeth Switaj, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Henryk Cierniak, Irene Turner, Jacob M. Appel, James Capozzi, Jesse Lee Kercheval, John Guzlowski, Kelly McQuain, Laurie Blauner, Marc Frazier, Mary Langer Thompson, Matthew Pitt, Okla Elliott, Paul Adler, Peter Burzyński, Richard Cecil, Samuel R. Delany, Vincent Czyz, Vladimir Mayakovsky

NONFICTION

David Kirby
Photos by Barbara Hamby

Cows and Wows: Why India Works Depite Itself and What We Can Learn from Its Example

INTERVIEW Garnett Kilberg Cohen
Interviewed by Okla Elliott
Freshness, Craft, and Time

 

FICTION Jacob M. Appel Gable’s Whiskers
David Armstrong Gracile
Laurie Blauner The Solace of Monsters
Garnett Kilberg Cohen Bad News
Matthew Pitt A Basket Case
Dariel Suarez Otto’s Body
Irene Turner excerpt from The Little War
POETRY Paul Adler Aporia

Paper Swan

Peter Burzynski Just Ten Minutes Left

This Is Meaning

James Capozzi Proem
Richard Cecil To an Old Man

Superbowl Sunday Prayer

January 31 Aubade

Anna Leahy Remembering Ophelia (1852)

On Laudanum

On Being St. Catherine (1857)

Elizabeth Switaj Erich

Willy

Arne Weingart Arshile Gorky in Las Vegas

Buffalo Girls Won’t You Come Out Tonight

The Money and the Talent

TRANSLATION Artur Azevedo
Translated by Amanda Sarasien
Top-Down
Henryk Cierniak
Translated by John Guzlowski
The Past

To a Jar

Circe Maia
Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Leaf

Journalism

Open House

Vladimir Mayakovsky
Translated by Alex Cigale
Three Film Treatments
REVIEWS Samuel R. Delany Adrift in a Vanishing City
by Vincent Czyz

Marc Frazier Velvet Rodeo
by Kelly McQuain
Carol Smallwood Poems in Water
by Mary Langer Thompson

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