There’s a moment in Virginia Bell’s poem “The Invention of Walking” where the speaker’s son shares with her his observations of how humans walk: “…some like windows opening out // or in, some like puppets dangling— / he imitates to show me, then he imitates // me, my Neanderthal arms swinging” (p. 39). It’s an […]
Brian Satrom
BRIAN SATROM‘s home is in Minneapolis, but he also lived in L.A. for many years, among other places, and completed an MFA at the University of Maryland. His writing has appeared in journals like Knockout, TAB, and Poetry Northwest, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His book reviews have appeared on the Colorado Review’s Center for Literary Publishing website.
Review: Virginia Bell’s Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around
Contributor Bios for Issue 12 Winter 2018
Issue 12 Winter 2018 RUTH AWAD is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection, Set to Music a Wildfire, won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Sixth […]
Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
(reviewed by Brian Satrom)
THOUSAND STAR HOTEL by Bao Phi Coffee House Press (2017) 110 pages reviewed by Brian Satrom What authors empathize with in their work can reveal a great deal about their perceptions of themselves. The poem “Not a Silverfish,” toward the end of Bao Phi’s second collection, Thousand Star Hotel, has the speaker imagining the perspective of […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018
INTERVIEWS Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen Power & Light Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout Invisible on Paper ESSAYS Leonard Kress What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah? Erinn Seifert Changing FICTION Mollie Boutell Intimates Malcolm Cumming Mere Anarchy Liz Egan Sgt. Lawson Brian Kamsoke Useful Things POETRY Ruth […]
