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Sean Karns

SEAN KARNS His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, Folio, Ninth Letter, Mayday Magazine (1), and elsewhere. His poems have also been reposted on asitoughttobe.com.

CUTTING DOWN THE PROPERTY LINE by Sean Karns

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: Sean Karns

1. Tire Swing He hacks at the thicket, grabs hold of the blackberry canes, bloodies his hands; blackens them with juices. He looks at his hands, sees labor: a future in tearing down.  There are children swinging on a swinging tire.  He wants to join them. He feels a stare; his father sits on the […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: October 1, 2010

Contributor Bios for Issue 3 Fall 2010

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: Adam Novy, Aditi Machado, Alistair Noon, Ani Kopaliani, Catullus, Chris D. Harvey, Christopher Higgs, Corey Mesler, Daniel Liebert, David Macey, Duff Brenna, Emilia Snyder, Gabriel Welsch, Heather Kirn, J. Patrick Lewis, Jan Kochanowski, Joe Wilkins, John Guzlowski, Joy Al-Sofi, Kathleen Hellen, Kelly Daniels, Leonard Kress, M. Lynx Qualey, Maggie Glover, Mark DeCarteret, Maya Sarishvili, Miriam Kotzin, Nena Giorgadze, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Osip Mandelshtam, Piotr Siwecki, Raina Kostova, Raul Clement, Ray De Angelo Harris Sr., Robert MacCready, Sanna Stegmaier, Scott Elliott, Sean Karns, Shane E. Bondi, Sivan Butler-Rotholz, Steven Klepetar, Steven Meyers, Timothy Kercher, Tony Brinkley, Travis Schneider, Vanessa Blakeslee, Yu-Han Chao

Issue 3 Fall 2010 JOY AL-SOFI currently teaches English in Hong Kong. She has worked in the high-tech industry and before that practiced law in both Oregon and Texas. Her work includes poetry, fiction and non-fiction and she has been published in the USA and Hong Kong. She has done theater reviews for community radio […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 3 Fall 2010

October 1, 2010 Contributed By: Adam Novy, Aditi Machado, Alistair Noon, Ani Kopaliani, Catullus, Chris D. Harvey, Christopher Higgs, Corey Mesler, Daniel Liebert, David Macey, Duff Brenna, Emilia Snyder, Gabriel Welsch, Heather Kirn, J. Patrick Lewis, Jan Kochanowski, Joe Wilkins, John Guzlowski, Joy Al-Sofi, Kathleen Hellen, Kelly Daniels, Leonard Kress, M. Lynx Qualey, Maggie Glover, Mark DeCarteret, Maya Sarishvili, Miriam Kotzin, Nena Giorgadze, Ólafur Gunnarsson, Osip Mandelshtam, Piotr Siwecki, Raina Kostova, Raul Clement, Ray De Angelo Harris Sr., Robert MacCready, Sanna Stegmaier, Scott Elliott, Sean Karns, Shane E. Bondi, Sivan Butler-Rotholz, Steven Klepetar, Steven Meyers, Timothy Kercher, Tony Brinkley, Travis Schneider, Vanessa Blakeslee, Yu-Han Chao

FEATURED ARTIST Robert MacCready UNTITLED STATEMENT BY THE ARTIST notes on life and work TRANSLATIONS epigrams by Catullus, translated from the Latin by David Macey   1 : : 85 fiction by Ólafur Gunnarsson, translated from the Icelandic by Ólafur Gunnarsson and Steven Meyers THE THAW poetry by Jan Kochanowski and Adam Mickiewicz, translated from […]

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SUNDAY MORNING by Sean Karns

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Sean Karns

After his first heart attack, I play with a bullet, thumb the buffed casing and pick at the lead.  A week’s worth of beer cans, pop cans, and burnt-out light bulbs clatter in the back seat with the .22 and 9mm. The truck rattles down the gravel road and we stop by our Sunday field. […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: April 1, 2009

MY FATHER’S POTATO DEATH by Sean Karns

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Sean Karns

The Irish weather demands a black umbrella, but I prefer green over black.  I see green in ways the morning light comes up over the green tree divide that separates the city from green-plastic- covered potato mounds. Being a crop inspector is serious business.  There’s been a few cropped heads because men with hatchets remember […]

Filed Under: Poetry Posted On: April 1, 2009

Contributor Bios for Issue 1 Spring 2009

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Abdellatif Laâbi, Christophe Casamassima, Chuck Richardson, Dan Beachy-Quick, David Dasher, David Gibbs, David R. Slavitt, David-Baptiste Chirot, Gordon Hadfield, Jared Schickling, Jerrod Bohn, Jillian Weise, Katie Atkinson, Kyle Minor, M. C. Armstrong, Mark Spitzer, Nancy Hadfield, Okla Elliott, Paula Carter, Raul Clement, Sean Karns, Steve Davenport

Issue 1 Spring 2009 V. JOSHUA ADAMS is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and editor of Chicago Review. JOE AMATO‘s recent books include Pain Plus Thyme (Factory School 2008) and Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (Iowa 2006). His memoir, Once an Engineer: A Song of the Salt City, is forthcoming later […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 1 Spring 2009

April 1, 2009 Contributed By: Abdellatif Laâbi, Christophe Casamassima, Chuck Richardson, Dan Beachy-Quick, David Dasher, David Gibbs, David R. Slavitt, David-Baptiste Chirot, Gordon Hadfield, Jared Schickling, Jerrod Bohn, Jillian Weise, Katie Atkinson, Kyle Minor, M. C. Armstrong, Mark Spitzer, Nancy Hadfield, Okla Elliott, Paula Carter, Raul Clement, Sean Karns, Steve Davenport

  FEATURED ARTIST David-Baptiste Chirot NECESSITY IS THE MOTHERFUCKER OF INVENTION thoughts on the delete button THE NEW EXTREME EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN POETRY a gallery featuring the visual works of poet, artist, and human rights activist David-Baptiste Chirot Jared Schickling, David-Baptiste Chirot FINDING THE ROOOT an interview conducted by Jared Schickling with David-Baptiste Chirot that will […]

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