1 The ball fields under the old bridge are lit, the fences are short, and the river stinks some nights like dead fish and men sweating after work and cigarettes, beer and piss. Here the catcher squats, toad in a jersey. I’m on deck and there’s this married woman. I’m counting the syllables of a […]
Steve Davenport
STEVE DAVENPORT is the author of Uncontainable Noise (poetry) and two chapbooks, Murder on Gasoline Lake (an essay, New American Press) and Nine Poems and Three Fictions (available free on-line and in The Literary Review’s Summer 2008 chapbook issue). Recent and forthcoming activities include a story in The Southern Review,a lyrical essay in Northwest Review, a scholarly essay about Richard Hugo’s poetry in All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature (University of Nebraska Press), and a Black Guy/Bald Guy reprint in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (Snowvigate Press). He keeps a website/blog at www.gasolinelake.com.
Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013
Issue 7 Winter 2013 DAVID ABRAMS is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic), a New York Times Notable Book for 2012. It was also selected as both an Indie Next pick and for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, Electric, Literature, Salamander, Connecticut Review, Five Chapters, […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 7 Fall 2013
FEATURED ARTIST Glenn Brady It’s All Feel, My Dear INTERVIEWS M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen A Dragon in the Hollow Kelly Davio interviewed by Michael Schmeltzer Feeding One Another Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott A Multiplicity of Visions George Saunders […]
NUMBERS MEAN SOMETHING by Steve Davenport
Black Guy and Bald Guy are buddies. Black Guy tells Bald Guy things. Every morning. 4:40. Stagger out of bed, glance at the clock as I go by. The numbers are glowing at me. 4:40. I have to pee. That’s some clockwork, man. Okay, sure, maybe not always 4: 40 on the nose, but 4:40 […]
THE LATEST BUDDY TEAM CASHING IN by Steve Davenport
Black Guy and Bald Guy are buddies. They play city-league slow-pitch together. Bald Guy plays shortstop and averages one home run every four or five games, which means he has just enough power to keep his on-base percentage from doing the team much good. Not as strong as Bald Guy or any faster, Black Guy’s […]
SLOWEST, FATTEST CURVE BALL IN HISTORY by Steve Davenport
Black Guy and Bald Guy are buddies. Which means nothing more than that. Couple of guys. Hot-shot Hollywood actors hanging out being guys. Batman and the Green Hornet. Lone Ranger and J. Edgar Hoover. Black Guy and Bald Guy. Just a couple of guys watching each other’s back. Buddies. Except that when someone thinks it […]
Contributor Bios for Issue 1 Spring 2009
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 […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 1 Spring 2009
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 […]
