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Efraín Bartolomé

EFRAÍN BARTOLOMÉ, born in 1950 in Ocosingo, State of Chiapas, Mexico, is an internationally recognized poet and prize-winning environmental activist. His verses have been collected in Agua lustral (Holy Water: Poems, 1982-1987); Oficio: arder(Poet Afire: Poems, 1982-1997); and El ser que somos (Being Who We Are). Bartolomé is the recipient of the Mexico City Prize; Aguascalientes National Poetry Award (1984); Carlos Pellicer Prize for published work (1992); Gilberto Owen National Literary Prize (1993); and the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Prize (1996). The Mexican government awarded him the National Forest and Wildlife Merit Prize. He received the Chiapas Arts Prize in 1998. In 2001, he received the International Latino Arts Award in the United States. He is a member of the National Council of Creative Artists, and his poems have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Arabic, Galician, Nahuatl, Peninsular Mayan, and Esperanto. He works as a psychotherapist in Mexico City. Ocosingo War Diary: Voices from Chiapas was his first book-length prose publication.

Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

Issue 8 Summer 2014 HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS received the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has also been accorded a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has most recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Oxford American, Waccamaw, and Southern […]

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An excerpt from Ocosingo War Diary: Voices from Chiapas by Efraín Bartolomé (translated by Kevin Brown)

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Efraín Bartolomé, Kevin Brown

8:15 Splendidly beautiful day: intense sun and blue sky. Big cloud of smoke at town hall. Nine guerrillas on the corner. Indigenous Tzeltals all. Nothing on the radio: “They smashed the station to pieces,“ Dora reports. They turned the policemen loose: some of them passed this way, freezing to death, without shirts, without shoes, without socks. […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

EDITORS‘ INTRODUCTION Paul Crenshaw & Okla Elliott Special Nonfiction Issue FEATURED ARTICLE David Kirby photos by Barbara Hamby Who Made That Wooden Horse, and What’s It Doing on Our Beach? What Greece Needs Now ESSAYS Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams Letter to Laurena Amy Gigi Alexander From Lost to Loved in Bihar Robert Cowan Close Call […]

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