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Melissa Buckheit

MELISSA BUCKHEIT is a poet, dancer/choreographer, photographer, English Lecturer and professional Bodywork Therapist. She is the author of Noctilucent (Shearsman Books, 2012), and two chapbooks: Dulcet You (dancing girl press, August 2016), and Arc (The Drunken Boat, 2007). Her poems, translations, photography, essays, critical interviews and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, HerKind, The VOLTA, Sinister Wisdom, The Drunken Boat, Bombay Gin, Spiral Orb, Shearsman Magazine, Waxwing, The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016), and elsewhere. Olga Broumas has described her poetry as deploying “the sensory intricacies of high lyric, iridescent candor & dynamic range to serve our imagination an eclectic feast of electrifying, intimate, thermospheric meditations,” and Jocelyn Heath, in a review in Lambda Literary, noted of Noctilucent that, “Buckheit pairs earthly longings with writings of celestial delicacy to show us what we can see when we look beyond immediacy. Her collection, like the noctilucent cloud that shares its name, lingers long in the atmosphere.” Buckheit translates the poet Ioulita Iliopoulou from Modern Greek, and is a recipient of the American Poets Honorary Award, a Tucson-Pima Arts Council Dance grant, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Naropa University and a B.A. in English & American Literature, Dance/Theatre & French from Brandeis University. She has co-curated the innovative Edge Reading Series in Tucson, AZ since 2008, and taught at Pima College, University of Arizona and Zuzi Dance Company. Find her at melissabuckheit.com.

Contributor Bios for Issue 10 Fall 2016

October 1, 2016 Contributed By: Alicia Anderson, Allison Blevins, Amy King, Bob Petersen, Carolyn Boll, Chase Dimock, Consuelo Arias, David Eye, Deborah La Garbanza, Diana Rickard, Dionisio Cañas, Donna Fleischer, Elissa Cahn, Gabriella M. Belfiglio, J.D. Isip, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Jennifer Morales, Kelli Connell, Kelly Miller, Lee Colin Thomas, Melissa Buckheit, Merrill Cole, R.B. Mertz, Robin Reagler, Susan Lynn Solomon, Susan Oke, Terry Adams, Tyler Gillespie

Issue 10 Summer 2016 TERRY ADAMS has poems in Poetry, Ironwood, The Sun, Witness, College English, The Painted Bride Quarterly,and elsewhere. He MCs poetry events at the Beat Museum in San Francisco and in La Honda, California. His first collection, Adam’s Ribs, is available from Off The Grid Press. He rescued from oblivion and lives in Ken Kesey’s infamous 1960s cabin in La Honda, California. ALICIA […]

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When You’re Dead
by Melissa Buckheit

October 1, 2016 Contributed By: Melissa Buckheit

When you’re dead you no longer have to think about the experiences of your childhood, get up morning after morning or cook meal upon meal until you no longer wish to eat. When you no longer wish to eat, you may be dead. I kept a collection of newspaper articles documenting airplane crashes in my […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: October 1, 2016

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 10 Fall 2016

October 1, 2016 Contributed By: Alicia Anderson, Allison Blevins, Amy King, Bob Petersen, Carolyn Boll, Chase Dimock, Consuelo Arias, David Eye, Deborah La Garbanza, Diana Rickard, Dionisio Cañas, Donna Fleischer, Elissa Cahn, Gabriella M. Belfiglio, J.D. Isip, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Jennifer Morales, Kelli Connell, Kelly Miller, Lee Colin Thomas, Melissa Buckheit, Merrill Cole, R.B. Mertz, Robin Reagler, Susan Lynn Solomon, Susan Oke, Terry Adams, Tyler Gillespie

EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Chase Dimock & Amy King LGBT Writing and the 21st Century FEATURED ARTIST Kelli Connell Double Life NONFICTION Alicia Anderson Nichts passiert in München (Nothing Happens in Munich) Consuelo Arias From New York City to Mar Chiquita: Evocations of a Singular Friendship Merrill Cole The Blond Sheep David Eye Messages from Howard Tyler […]

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