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Nancy P. Davenport

NANCY P. DAVENPORT was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and lives there still. She has been a legal secretary, a yoga instructor, and a hamburger chef; she has also worked at the Palo Alto Chapter of the American Red Cross and many local coffee houses. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Burning Grape, The Mountain Gazette, The Bicycle Review, FEARLESS, Turbulence Poetry, Ygdrasil, The Rose Red Review, Ravenous Butterflies, Poetry Quarterly, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Lilliput Review, Blue Fifth Review, Red Fez, Danse Macabre, Twizted Tungz, Full of Crow Poetry, Shwibily Press, and Del Sol Review, as well as in the anthology And It Happened Under Cover (NightWing, 2014). Her first chapbook, La Brizna, was published by Mountains & Rivers Press in May 2014.

Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

Issue 8 Summer 2014 HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS received the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award for her novella The Man Who Danced with Dolls and her memoir-in-progress The Following Sea. She has also been accorded a Rona Jaffe National Literary Award and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has most recently appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Oxford American, Waccamaw, and Southern […]

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Chianti
by Nancy P. Davenport

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Nancy P. Davenport

I found that bottle of chianti in the cabinet for cooking it’s nothing special— kind of cheap, actually I’ve spent the hour, the day, the week minutes ignoring that it’s in there seconds but here it is in front of me, the cork pushed in with the end of a knife because I threw away […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: July 1, 2014

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

July 1, 2014 Contributed By: Amy Gigi Alexander, Barbara Hamby, Carol Smallwood, Christian Sorace, David Kirby, David R. Slavitt, Ed Makowski, Efraín Bartolomé, Gary Fincke, Graham Guest, Greg Hlavaty, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Janet Joyner, Joseph Mills, Joshua Preston, Kevin Brown, Melissa King Rogers, Michael Ennis, Michael Gills, Michael Karl (Ritchie), Michael Meyerhofer, Nancy P. Davenport, Okla Elliott, P. J. Williams, Paul Crenshaw, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Cowan, Sarah Katharina Kayß, Seth Michelson, Siddhartha Sebastian Larsson, Tony Whedon, Vincent Czyz

EDITORS‘ INTRODUCTION Paul Crenshaw & Okla Elliott Special Nonfiction Issue FEATURED ARTICLE David Kirby photos by Barbara Hamby Who Made That Wooden Horse, and What’s It Doing on Our Beach? What Greece Needs Now ESSAYS Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams Letter to Laurena Amy Gigi Alexander From Lost to Loved in Bihar Robert Cowan Close Call […]

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