All it takes is one turn
of the kaleidoscope and the butterfly-world shatters.
Why can’t you learn?
Jane O. Wayne
JANE O. WAYNE’s poetry collections are Looking Both Ways (University of MO Press) which received the Devins Award for Poetry, and A Strange Heart which received the Marianne Moore Prize and the Society of Midland Authors Award, From the Night Album (Pecan Grove), and The Other Place You Live (Mayapple Press). Among other magazines, her work has appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Boulevard, The Baltimore Review, December, Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, Ploughshares, and The American Scholar.
Inside the Kaleidoscope
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 […]
The Hazards
by Jane O. Wayne
I must wait while the sugar melts… Henri Bergson Every few steps on the dunes, she loses her foothold––slipping, climbing again. Too occupied to look back. The beach. The waves. Every particle in motion. She has ridden a horse that would not stop cantering when she pulled the reins; hands clenched, she still holds […]
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 […]