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John McKernan

JOHN MCKERNAN is a retired comma herder after teaching forty-one years at Marshall University. His most recent book is a selected poems, Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Journal, Antioch Review, Guernica, Field, and many other magazines and literary journals. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, he now lives—mostly—in West Virginia, where he edits ABZ Press.

This Thought of Susan by John McKernan

October 1, 2012 Contributed By: John McKernan

Is probably What powdered uranium tastes like Yes   She was the word floozie to a T But that word Does not rhyme with the word pain Why am I looking again at these photos We’re sleeping on some white beach at midnight Who could have taken this picture ? What an intriguing corpse I’ll make My brain loves […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: October 1, 2012

Hello Zero by John McKernan

October 1, 2012 Contributed By: John McKernan

How quick you are   Little wheel To appear on the page As if You were Going somewhere To me You are still That gasp of horror O  or  OH You think You created a clever disguise Loitering next to the number NO But I know a real alias when I see one Noose   Noose   Noose Return to table […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: October 1, 2012

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 6 Fall 2012

October 1, 2012 Contributed By: Anthony Jones, Benjamin Goldberg, Bobby Neel Adams, Brett Strickland, Bryan Paiement, Derek Pollard, Eduard Mörike, Ellen Elder, Frederick Pollack, Jacob Doyle, Jason Lee Brown, Jeff Friedman, Jeffrey Taylor, Joanna L. Grisham, John McKernan, José Ð Almeida, Josh Peterson, K.A. Wisniewski, Kate Partridge, Kirby Wright, Maggie Rosenau, Marcel Lecomte, Mark Parsons, Mary Quade, Micah Dean Hicks, Michelle Davis, Rebecca Cook, Richard Sonnenmoser, Rob Cook, Ron Czerwien, Ryo Yamaguchi, Tara Mae Mulroy, Tetman Callis

FEATURED ARTIST José Ð Almeida Scenes of Catharsis: A Gallery NONFICTION Bobby Neel Adams The King of Sixth Street Rebecca Cook Yellow Cake Joanna L. Grisham The Stranger Bryan Paiement Reserved for the Son FICTION Tetman Callis Yttat Michelle Davis Broken Jacob Doyle If You Were the Ice Jeff Friedman Seeing Letitia Micah Dean Hicks […]

Filed Under: Issues Posted On: October 1, 2012

Contributor Bios for Issue 6 Fall 2012

October 1, 2012 Contributed By: Anthony Jones, Benjamin Goldberg, Bobby Neel Adams, Brett Strickland, Bryan Paiement, Derek Pollard, Eduard Mörike, Ellen Elder, Frederick Pollack, Jacob Doyle, Jason Lee Brown, Jeff Friedman, Jeffrey Taylor, Joanna L. Grisham, John McKernan, José Ð Almeida, Josh Peterson, K.A. Wisniewski, Kate Partridge, Kirby Wright, Maggie Rosenau, Marcel Lecomte, Mark Parsons, Mary Quade, Micah Dean Hicks, Michelle Davis, Rebecca Cook, Richard Sonnenmoser, Rob Cook, Ron Czerwien, Ryo Yamaguchi, Tara Mae Mulroy, Tetman Callis

Issue 6 Fall 2012 BOBBY NEEL ADAMS is a photographer living in New York. After getting picked up by the cops at LaGuardia Airport while he was photographing airplanes he wrote his first story, “How I Spent My Fifty-Third Birthday.” It was published with photo illustrations in DAMn Magazine (Brussels) in 2007. In 2009, Adams suffered two […]

Filed Under: Contributor Bios Posted On: October 1, 2012

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