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Anna Leahy

ANNA LEAHY‘s book Constituents of Matter won the Wick Poetry Prize, and her poems and essays appear in anthologies and journals. The three poems published in this issue of MAYDAY also appear in her chapbook Sharp Miracles, which will launch a new series from Blue Lyra Press in spring 2016. Leahy teaches in the MFA and BFA programs at Chapman University, where she curates the Tabula Poetica reading series and edits the international journal TAB. She also co-writes the Lofty Ambitions blog.

See more at www.amleahy.com & follow @amleahy on Twitter.

Contributor Bios for 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 Burzynski, Richard Cecil, Samuel R. Delany, Vincent Czyz, Vladimir Mayakovsky

Issue 9 Summer 2015 PAUL ADLER received his MFA from Columbia University, where Matthew Zapruder selected his thesis manuscript as winner of the 2012 David Craig Austin Prize. Paul currently works as the Assistant Editor of Westchester Magazine. JACOB M. APPEL is the author of the novels The Biology of Luck and The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up. His fourth collection […]

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On Being St. Catherine (1857)
by Anna Leahy

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Anna Leahy

“I constitute myself in the process of ‘posing,’ I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself into an image.”                     —Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes I imagined myself on the way to have my body stretched over the wheel, not later, when the angels came with lightning that sent spikes and splinters into the air. […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 1, 2015

On Laudanum
by Anna Leahy

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Anna Leahy

Tincture of opium: a suffusing saturating permeating flood. Over the counter from the grocer, the barber, the baker. A painkiller, a cordial for irritable babies and bedwetting toddlers, to alleviate cough, gout, menopause, rheumatism, ulcers, cramps, bruises. Nothing anyone suffered could not be cured. Hard to know whether sadness is cause or effect, whether jealousy […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 1, 2015

Remembering Ophelia (1852)
by Anna Leahy

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Anna Leahy

I made a pretty painting, secured a reputation with Ophelia. The secret is laudanum—the floaty-floaty feeling— and the shiver-chill when the fire went out under the tub and left my teeth to clatter; that’s what created my pallor, gave the brush its worthy goal. I held my quiet pose, always anxious for verbal intercourse, though not […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 1, 2015

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 Burzynski, 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 […]

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