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Hedy Habra

HEDY HABRA has authored two poetry collections, Under Brushstrokes, finalist for the USA Best Book Award and the International Poetry Book Award, and Tea in Heliopolis, winner of the USA Best Book Award and finalist for the International Poetry Book Award. Her story collection, Flying Carpets, won the Arab American National Book Award’s Honorable Mention and was finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. A recipient of the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Awards, she was an eight-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her work appears in Cimarron Review, Bitter Oleander, Blue Fifth Review, Cider Press Review, Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, Nimrod, Poet Lore, World Literature Today and Verse Daily. Her website is hedyhabra.com.

Tesserae
by Hedy Habra

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Hedy Habra

When I close my eyes   I see the child in me hug the hour hand   licked by the flame of memory emerging   in stark darkness   a faint light filters   through cracks a half-open door   frames a shadow tiptoeing to make   the moment endure   some nights fired   tesserae reassemble the father who left too […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: January 1, 2018

Contributor Bios for Issue 12 Winter 2018

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Amy Sawyer, Bilal Shaw, Brian Kamsoke, Brian Satrom, C. Kubasta, Clarisse Francillon, Darren Demaree, David Bowen, David Macey, Devon Balwit, Divya Rajan, Donna Pucciani, Eric Shonkwiler, Erinn Seifert, Evan Baden, Ghalib, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Hedy Habra, Ian Haight, J. Kates, James Brunton, Jesse DeLong, Jesse Tangen-Mills, José Daniel García, Julian Cola, Karl-Heinz Ott, Kevin J.B. O'Connor, Leonard Kress, Liz Egan, M.A. Istvan Jr., Malcolm Cumming, Martial, Martyna Buliżańska, Matthew Guenette, Michelle Bailat-Jones, Mollie Boutell, Nicholas Manning, Nick Conrad, Pamela Miller, Peter Burzynski, Peter Woltemade, Robert Cowan, Robert Joe Stout, Robert Nazarene, Rush Rankin, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ballouk, Stephen Gibson, Tatiana Neshumova, Todd Osborne, Tony Barnstone

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 […]

Filed Under: Contributor Bios Posted On: January 1, 2018

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Amy Sawyer, Bilal Shaw, Brian Kamsoke, Brian Satrom, C. Kubasta, Clarisse Francillon, Darren Demaree, David Bowen, David Macey, Devon Balwit, Divya Rajan, Donna Pucciani, Eric Shonkwiler, Erinn Seifert, Evan Baden, Ghalib, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Hedy Habra, Ian Haight, J. Kates, James Brunton, Jesse DeLong, Jesse Tangen-Mills, José Daniel García, Julian Cola, Karl-Heinz Ott, Kevin J.B. O'Connor, Leonard Kress, Liz Egan, M.A. Istvan Jr., Malcolm Cumming, Martial, Martyna Buliżańska, Matthew Guenette, Michelle Bailat-Jones, Mollie Boutell, Nicholas Manning, Nick Conrad, Pamela Miller, Peter Burzynski, Peter Woltemade, Robert Cowan, Robert Joe Stout, Robert Nazarene, Rush Rankin, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ballouk, Stephen Gibson, Tatiana Neshumova, Todd Osborne, Tony Barnstone

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 […]

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