John Guzlowski

JOHN GUZLOWSKI’s writing appears in Garrison Keillor’s Writers’ Almanac, The Ontario Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Poetry East, Exquisite Corpse, Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mississippi Review, Rattle, Atticus Review, Manhattan Review, The Drunken Boat, and other print and online journals in the United States and elsewhere. The poems in his book Language of Mules won an Illinois Arts Council Poetry Fellowship Award in 2001. He’s been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes.

Contributor Bios for Issue 9 Summer 2015

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Alex Cigale, Amanda Sarasien, Anna Leahy, Arne Weingart, Artur Azevedo, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Circe Maia, Dariel Suarez, David Armstrong, David Kirby, Elizabeth Switaj, Garnett Kilberg Cohen, Henryk Cierniak, Irene Turner, Jacob M. Appel, James Capozzi, Jesse Lee Kercheval, John Guzlowski, Kelly McQuain, Laurie Blauner, Marc Frazier, Mary Langer Thompson, Matthew Pitt, Okla Elliott, Paul Adler, Peter Burzynski, Richard Cecil, Samuel R. Delany, Vincent Czyz, Vladimir Mayakovsky

Issue 9 Summer 2015 PAUL ADLER received his MFA from Columbia University, where Matthew Zapruder selected his thesis manuscript as winner of the 2012 David Craig Austin Prize. Paul currently works as the Assistant Editor of Westchester Magazine. JACOB M. APPEL is the author of the novels The Biology of Luck and The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up. His fourth collection […]

To a Jar by Henryk Cierniak
(Translated from Polish by John Guzlowski)

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Henryk Cierniak, John Guzlowski

oh tiny jar sealed up with rubber and a fastener just in case it’s not true that you carry emptiness inside – you contain room for happiness and sorrows and the pickled cucumbers are nice oh you jar the friend of long hours at the fireplace and summer revels faithful friend the transparent jar made […]

The Past by Henryk Cierniak
(Translated from Polish by John Guzlowski)

July 1, 2015 Contributed By: Henryk Cierniak, John Guzlowski

The house was nothing just a building site, thirteen years ago Remember it? It’s still nothing my son is sixteen How can I forget? He’s nothing but an ordinary boy actually a bit troublesome instead of putting up insulation he and his friends go to the village he walks like he’s some kind of god […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

NONFICTION David Kirby Photos by Barbara Hamby Cows and Wows: Why India Works Depite Itself and What We Can Learn from Its Example INTERVIEW Garnett Kilberg Cohen Interviewed by Okla Elliott Freshness, Craft, and Time FICTION Jacob M. Appel Gable’s Whiskers David Armstrong Gracile Laurie Blauner The Solace of Monsters Garnett Kilberg Cohen Bad […]

Three Themes from Edward Hopper by Feliks Netz (translated by John Guzlowski and Janusz Zalewski)

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Feliks Netz, Janusz Zalewski, John Guzlowski

1. Morning in the City a naked woman in a room naked as her skin turns away in shame from the eye of God and reaches in hopeless self-defense for a towel to cover her breasts and sex she combed her red hair back with her left ear exposed finished her morning toilet but not as […]

Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Agnar Artúvertin, Alexis M. Smith, Alice B. Fogel, Amado Nervo, Andrew Hudgins, Anne Barngrover, Änne Troester, Avni Vyas, Brigit Kelly Young, Calvin Haul, Catherine Nelson, Christopher Merkner, David Abrams, David Bowen, Ethan Madarieta, Feliks Netz, George Moore, George Saunders, Glenn Brady, Irene Jiménez, Ivan Young, J. R. Longfellow, Jacob M. Appel, Janusz Zalewski, Jay Shearer, Jennifer Spiegel, Jeremy Britton, John Guzlowski, Jon Thompson, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Katharine L. Wiegele, Katy E. Ellis, Kelly Davio, Kyle Muntz, Lee Upton, M. C. Armstrong, Marius Lehene, Matthew Cooperman, Matthew Landrum, Michael Czyniejewski, Michael Schmeltzer, Octavio Quintanilla, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, R. Clifton Spargo, Raul Clement, Richard Thomas, Rimas Uzgiris, Stephen Kuusisto, Steve Davenport, Terrance Gutberlet, Theodore Worozbyt, Valentin Dishev

Issue 7 Winter 2013 DAVID ABRAMS is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic), a New York Times Notable Book for 2012. It was also selected as both an Indie Next pick and for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, Electric, Literature, Salamander, Connecticut Review, Five Chapters, […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 7 Fall 2013

FEATURED ARTIST Glenn Brady It’s All Feel, My Dear INTERVIEWS M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen A Dragon in the Hollow Kelly Davio interviewed by Michael Schmeltzer Feeding One Another Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott A Multiplicity of Visions George Saunders […]

THE LOVE SONG OF T. S. ELIOT by John Guzlowski

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: John Guzlowski

His new false teeth made it hard For him to speak the French He wanted to whisper to her, Those lines from Baudelaire, That always touched him so, Lines about the light love creates, So Eliot took the teeth out And gummed his Baudelaire Until she begged him to stop, Her tears rolling through Her […]

Contributor Bios for Issue 3 Fall 2010

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: Adam Novy, Aditi Machado, Alistair Noon, Ani Kopaliani, Catullus, Chris D. Harvey, Christopher Higgs, Corey Mesler, Daniel Liebert, David Macey, Duff Brenna, Emilia Snyder, Gabriel Welsch, Heather Kirn, J. Patrick Lewis, Jan Kochanowski, Joe Wilkins, John Guzlowski, Joy Al-Sofi, Kathleen Hellen, Kelly Daniels, Leonard Kress, M. Lynx Qualey, Maggie Glover, Mark DeCarteret, Maya Sarishvili, Miriam Kotzin, Nena Giorgadze, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Osip Mandelshtam, Piotr Siwecki, Raina Kostova, Raul Clement, Ray De Angelo Harris Sr., Robert MacCready, Sanna Stegmaier, Scott Elliott, Sean Karns, Shane E. Bondi, Sivan Butler-Rotholz, Steven Klepetar, Steven Meyers, Timothy Kercher, Tony Brinkley, Travis Schneider, Vanessa Blakeslee, Yu-Han Chao

Issue 3 Fall 2010 JOY AL-SOFI currently teaches English in Hong Kong. She has worked in the high-tech industry and before that practiced law in both Oregon and Texas. Her work includes poetry, fiction and non-fiction and she has been published in the USA and Hong Kong. She has done theater reviews for community radio […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 3 Fall 2010

FEATURED ARTIST Robert MacCready UNTITLED STATEMENT BY THE ARTIST notes on life and work TRANSLATIONS epigrams by Catullus, translated from the Latin by David Macey 1 : : 85 fiction by Ólafur Gunnarsson, translated from the Icelandic by Ólafur Gunnarsson and Steven Meyers THE THAW poetry by Jan Kochanowski and Adam Mickiewicz, translated from […]

John Guzlowski

Contributor Bios for Issue 9 Summer 2015

To a Jar by Henryk Cierniak
(Translated from Polish by John Guzlowski)

The Past by Henryk Cierniak
(Translated from Polish by John Guzlowski)

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 9 Summer 2015

Three Themes from Edward Hopper by Feliks Netz (translated by John Guzlowski and Janusz Zalewski)

Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 7 Fall 2013

THE LOVE SONG OF T. S. ELIOT by John Guzlowski

Contributor Bios for Issue 3 Fall 2010

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 3 Fall 2010

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