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ROBERT COWAN is a professor and a dean at the City University of New York and a volunteer instructor at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. He is the author of The Indo-German Identification: Reconciling South Asian Origins and European Destinies, 1765-1885 and Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College and is completing two hybrid-genre manuscripts, one of which includes “Amaranthine Days.

Contributor Bios for Issue 12 Winter 2018

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Issue 12 Winter 2018 RUTH AWAD is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection, Set to Music a Wildfire, won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. She is the recipient of a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her work has appeared in New Republic, The Missouri Review Poem of the Week, Sixth […]

Amaranthine Days
by Robert Cowan

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Prologue See Dick and Jeanne meet at Syracuse. They played house on Falcon Avenue. They had fun. See Dick and Jeanne have three children: R. the dog, J. the cat, and R. the teddy bear. See Dick and Jeanne have a smashing time. Smash, glass, smash! See Dick and Jeanne separate in 1974 and lead […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 12 Winter 2018

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INTERVIEWS Eric Shonkwiler interviewed by David Bowen Power & Light Juan Gelacio interviewed by Robert Joe Stout Invisible on Paper ESSAYS Leonard Kress What Kind of Parent Lets a Thirteen-Year-Old Cancel Her Bat Mitzvah? Erinn Seifert Changing FICTION Mollie Boutell Intimates Malcolm Cumming Mere Anarchy Liz Egan Sgt. Lawson Brian Kamsoke Useful Things POETRY Ruth […]

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Contributor Bios for Issue 8 Summer 2014

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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 […]

Close Call With Siberian Kick-boxers
by Robert Cowan

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1.     being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage The taciturn kick-boxers and I are exhausting the path of light through the trees, careening down a crevasse of road carved through remarkably straight conifers, when a full black vehicle much larger than our aluminum can charges us directly until […]

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 8 Summer 2014

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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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