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Michael T. Young

MICHAEL T. YOUNG‘s third full-length collection, The Infinite Doctrine of Water, was published by Terrapin Books. His other collections are The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost and Transcriptions of Daylight. His chapbook, Living in the Counterpoint, received the Jean Pedrick Award from the New England Poetry Club. He also received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including American Book Review, Cimarron Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Smart Set, US1 Worksheets, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Contributor Bios for Issue 13 Summer 2018

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Alice B. Fogel, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Carolyn Oliver, Deborah Flanagan, Epiphany Knedler, Eric Barnes, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio, Jane O. Wayne, Janette Schafer, Jerome Richard, Joshua Bernstein, Katherine Riegel, Kevin Rabas, Marc Frazier, Matt Whelihan, Michael Parker-Stainback, Michael T. Young, Mirza Sakit, Murad Jalilov, Nandini Dhar, Risa Shargel, Roy Bentley, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ortiz, Stanislav Stratiev, Stephen Gibson, Thomas Jacobs, Tom Larsen, Tori Grant Welhouse

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 […]

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What the Mind Hungers for
by Michael T. Young

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Michael T. Young

There is so much reality it often escapes me. Even at dinner, while chewing root vegetables, the excess bursts from my mouth with each bite. I think it a trickle of beet juice and dab it with a napkin. Bacon sizzles and pops on the stove with abundant verity and I think how good but am […]

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The Mind as a Poor City Planner
by Michael T. Young

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Michael T. Young

Like these abandoned buildings along the boulevard some good ideas can fall into disrepair: dark in their vacancies, whole sections of wall broken. Year after year weather beats deeper into their exposed beams and we learn to live around their uselessness: take a different bus to work, find another store to get the milk and […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 1, 2018

Song
by Michael T. Young

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Michael T. Young

The first sentence of a certain history is written near an estuary, in a building with no address, behind the last door, at the end of a hall lined with pinewood paneling. One of those panels, when it was a tree, held a robin’s nest, and one of that bird’s young managed to leap from […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 1, 2018

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 13 Summer 2018

July 1, 2018 Contributed By: Alice B. Fogel, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Carolyn Oliver, Deborah Flanagan, Epiphany Knedler, Eric Barnes, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio, Jane O. Wayne, Janette Schafer, Jerome Richard, Joshua Bernstein, Katherine Riegel, Kevin Rabas, Marc Frazier, Matt Whelihan, Michael Parker-Stainback, Michael T. Young, Mirza Sakit, Murad Jalilov, Nandini Dhar, Risa Shargel, Roy Bentley, Ruth Awad, Sergio Ortiz, Stanislav Stratiev, Stephen Gibson, Thomas Jacobs, Tom Larsen, Tori Grant Welhouse

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 […]

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The Voice of Water by Michael T. Young

April 1, 2012 Contributed By: Michael T. Young

It sounds like grape leaves shaking. It cushions like thick grass underfoot. Its currents spread beyond the range of mountains which is why sometimes people mistake it for the distant trickle of the sun setting. The error depends on which way they’re walking, and if the wind is blowing from the north or south. It […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: April 1, 2012

Study for Infatuation by Michael T. Young

April 1, 2012 Contributed By: Michael T. Young

Sometimes the blue sky threatens, the lilac conceals some danger. But it passes like a cougar stalking among the boulders and deciding mysteriously to move on.  You don’t know, but something you did or didn’t do, saved your life. And what might have happened had you turned your back on this sunset, this rotting fence […]

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Contributor Bios for Issue 5 Spring 2012

April 1, 2012 Contributed By: Alan Heathcock, Alejandro Méndez, Aleksey Porvin, Alyse Bensel, Amy Holwerda, Andrew Galan, Brandi George, Christopher Munde, Dana Kroos, Deena Metzger, Gerard Marconi, Helen Degen Cohen, Helen DeWitt, John Sibley Williams, Laura Chalar, Lauren Schmidt, Liam Hysjulien, Liz Robbins, Mark Neely, Michael T. Young, Neil Carpathios, Okla Elliott, Peter Golub, Richard Fein, S. P. MacIntyre, Sarah Marshall, Scott Tucker, Shelby Stephenson, Sheng Qi, Suzanne Richardson, Thom Dawkins, William B. Robison, WinLo333

Issue 5 Spring 2012 ALYSE BENSEL is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry at Penn State. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cider Press Review, The Summerset Review, and Foothill Poetry, among others. When not engaged in her teaching and studies, she volunteers for a cat rescue and participates in a work-share program at a local CSA farm. […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 5 Spring 2012

April 1, 2012 Contributed By: Alan Heathcock, Alejandro Méndez, Aleksey Porvin, Alyse Bensel, Amy Holwerda, Andrew Galan, Brandi George, Christopher Munde, Dana Kroos, Deena Metzger, Gerard Marconi, Helen Degen Cohen, Helen DeWitt, John Sibley Williams, Laura Chalar, Lauren Schmidt, Liam Hysjulien, Liz Robbins, Mark Neely, Michael T. Young, Neil Carpathios, Okla Elliott, Peter Golub, Richard Fein, S. P. MacIntyre, Sarah Marshall, Scott Tucker, Shelby Stephenson, Sheng Qi, Suzanne Richardson, Thom Dawkins, William B. Robison, WinLo333

FEATURED ARTIST Sheng Qi Painting without Colour: A Gallery NONFICTION Helen DeWitt Experimental, Interstitial, and Hybrid an interview with Helen DeWitt conducted by S. P. MacIntyre Alan Heathcock Never Not a Writer an interview with Alan Heathcock conducted by Okla Elliott Amy Holwerda Like the Wine of Our Red Alaska FICTION WinLo333 Sob Stories Gerard […]

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