The Mayfly Codex

The Mayfly Codex unfolds with such a deftly woven oscillation between high and low (though which is which in the 'frothy brew?'): mechanical and organic, bawdy and reverential, declarative and interrogative.

Marc Vincenz is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician and artist. He has published many books of poetry, fiction and translation. His more recent poetry collections, include, The Pearl Diver of Irunmani, A Splash of Cave Paint, The King of Prussia is Drunk on Stars and Spells for the Wicked. Marc's work has been published in The Nation, Ploughshares, Raritan, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, Plume, Fourteen Hills, Willow Springs, World Literature Today, Golden Handcuffs Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books and many other journals and periodicals. His translation of Swiss poet Klaus Merz' selected poems, An Audible Blue won the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award for Translation. He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of New American Writing, and lives on a farm in Western Massachusetts where there are more spiny-nosed voles, tufted grey-buckle hares and Amoeba scintilla than humans.