MAYDAY

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

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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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