You wanted at least three showers, two oceans— and a pool to watch anemones devour jellyfish. Listen, I’d love to stay, but I’ve disremembered my accessories. Here’s a mermaid’s purse, for when you find them. Turkey-lettuce wrap, eye mask, Kant? Hegel. I was thinking, in the living room: Everything goes wrong at the water’s surface. […]
Carolyn Oliver
CAROLYN OLIVER is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry), and three chapbooks. Her poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, At Length, Plume, and elsewhere. She lives in Massachusetts, where she is a 2023-2024 Artist in Residence at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Her website is carolynoliver.net.
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Contributor Bios for Issue 13 Summer 2018
Issue 13 Summer 2018 HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released in […]
Interlopers
by Carolyn Oliver
Early sun nestled under trees and eaves that cupped our voices counting up past ten and naming creatures—shrews, dolphins, bats, whales— who’d catch the news of our passing through fog, or night, or krill clouds in the deep. Mothers, I told you, echolocate too. For months I’d hummed and heard you in my dark, held […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 13 Summer 2018
INTERVIEWS Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad Joy Is Not Promised to You ESSAYS Joshua Bernstein The Gospel of Dearth Tom Larsen The Nightmare Next Door Jerome Richard Good and Decent People Janette Schafer The Miracle of Ordinary FICTION Eric Barnes Time Space Thomas Jacobs The Death of Z Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio Fighting for His […]