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
FEATURED ARTIST	Ryan Woolgar	www.ryanwoolgar.com

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

Dark Humor in a Time of Genocide
by Rebecca Ruth Gould

Imagine living in a world in which a phone call from a stranger may announce the bombing of your home, the destruction of your neighborhood, and the deaths of your loved ones. Imagine making a living from this destruction, by weaving shrouds for the bodies of those whom the bombs flying overhead will soon kill. […]

Interview with Hayley Cranberry Small, Artist and Founder of Lutte Collective
by Corey Durbin

Hayley Cranberry Small (she/her) is an Artist, Urban Planner, and Ceramicist working out of Brooklyn, NY. They started Lutte Collective, a platform for highlighting disabled and chronically ill artists, in 2017. Corey Durbin: Thank you so much for taking time to talk with us, could you start by telling us a little bit about yourself […]

GNOMIC SAVIORS: EDITORS ON EDITING – HOW CAN LIT MAGS INCREASE READERSHIP?

Okla Elliott: Since one of my goals for doing this editors forum is to promote literary journals and hopefully garner subscriptions for the journals involved here and others, could you discuss what you think editors and writers could be doing to increase readership of literary journals? For example, one tactic I’ve used is to require workshop […]