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How to Write
Three Poems
The Mother Part
Portraits of Uncle in Boxers
The Pieces
Cowrie Shells and Calico
Rebellion
Burying the book: Three Poems
Review: Fatemeh Shams’s Hopscotch
Review: Miguel Avero’s Aguas/Waters
Please Don’t Make Fun of God
There Is No Male Body Positivity Movement. It’s Time We Start One.
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POETRY
How to Write
by David Ehmcke
1 Steal everything you can from Whole Foods. 2 When the guest lecturer tells you he has a secret, then leans in and bites your ear, keep your eyes open. Pretend to be asleep. 3 Call your mother. Watch the room fill with water as she speaks. This is […]
Three Poems
by Inna Krasnoper
* this is west of time this is east of time here you go south of time there—north north went south east stayed ezekiel stayed isaac searched iskal iz skaly out of the mountain comes the sun before it goes off the rails everyone searched for the sun it had to be found it had […]
FICTION
The Mother Part
by Siamak Vossoughi
The Mother Part At the Free Palestine march, Anil saw the sign first: If you are anything like my mother, Agnes Kimber, who says that Palestinians are animals, then you are my enemy too. We couldn’t see who was holding it. They were up at the front. They wanted everyone to know. “How about […]
Portraits of Uncle in Boxers
by Aaron Barreras
This story won first place at the MAYDAY 2024 Short Fiction Contest. I don’t know why I was chewing on my uncle’s arm, but I was. As a child I don’t know why I did a lot of things, so must find meaning from a memory handed down to my not-child-self: being small, and chewing […]
NONFICTION
The Pieces
by KM Kramer
**** Mrs. Beasley’s Lessons I. Mrs. Beasley: my mother presents her as a hand-me-down. I instantly dislike the doll for the stain, suspiciously pooh-colored, on her blue polka-dot outfit. So I toss Mrs. Beasley in my bedroom’s extra closet—the one that contains my mother’s evening gowns and dress shoes, which hang in floor-length shoe bags. […]
Cowrie Shells and Calico
by Conrad Pegues
I’ve known too many disasters to trust the world like they do. The boys doing traditionally boy things. In 1975, a girl on the stairwell in middle school stopped to say I act like a girl sometimes, a boy at other times. I never had the comfort of a closet. My masculine and femme get […]
TRANSLATION
Rebellion
by Dragana Kršenković Brković, Translated from the Montenegrin by Aleksandra Nikčević Batričević
Dusk was slowly descending over the town. The rain had finally stopped, but the sky was still covered with heavy gray clouds. It was Friday, the last day of November. Even though Maya was cold, she still wandered around persistently. For a while, she walked along the trail by the Yser River. Her gaze wandered […]
Burying the book: Three Poems
by Adrian Alui Gheorghe
Translated from the Romanian by Cristina Savin
Let us bury those who wrote the books.
Let us bury those who read them.
REVIEWS
Review: Fatemeh Shams’s Hopscotch
translated from the Persian by Armen Davoudian
by Mahdi Ganjavi
In The Beginning, There Was Translation Hopscotch (Falschrum Books and Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024) is a collection of 13 poems in Persian by Fatemeh Shams, accompanied by their English translations by Armen Davoudian, and a series of evocative photographs by Stefan Maneval. This collection delves deeply into the themes of exile, memory, and the internal […]
Review: Miguel Avero’s Aguas/Waters
translated from the Spanish by Jona Colson
by Pepper Cunningham
Aguas/Waters is obsessed with dichotomies; the relationship between earth and space, the thin film between strangers and people we think we know, the struggle between naked truth and blissful ignorance, the heartache between presence and absence.
CULTURE
Please Don’t Make Fun of God
by McKenzie Watson-Fore
This essay is written by MAYDAY magazine’s Critic in Residence This past summer, my partner Michael and I attended the wedding of two of our friends. One of them grew up in a Y2K prepper cult in Eastern Oregon. Her now-wife is a Dutch gynecologist. The four of us will often laugh about the mirrored […]
There Is No Male Body Positivity Movement. It’s Time We Start One.
by Justin Kolber
This essay continues the theme of Men’s Mental Health Month, whose important message should be recognized all year rather than just in November. Eating disorders are a “silent scream.” According to Monte Nido, a specialized treatment center for eating disorders, “Millions of people are hiding an eating disorder every day.” Specifically, 29 million Americans today […]
