MER VOX
MER VOX Quarterly – Summer 2020 Folios RIDING THE DANGEROUS WIND Flash Fiction curated by Tara Lynn Masih Emma Bolden, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Kathy Fish, Sherrie Flick, Rosie Forrest,Tara Laskowski, Dawn Raffel, Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Claudia Smith, Julia Strayer “The reality…
Mom Egg Review 18 HOME
Mom Egg Review vol. 18 – HOME Purchase the print issue of MER 18. Purchase…
MER VOX Quarterly – Spring 2020
MER VOX Quarterly – Spring 2020 Visions of Home: A MER VOX Poetry Folio…
Blood Memory by Gail Newman
Review by Sandra Anfang Gail Newman’s new poetry collection, Blood Memory, is an emotionally challenging and essential reading experience. It chronicles the ongoing effects of the Holocaust on the author and her family across generations. By turns arresting, chilling,…
The More Extravagant Feast by Leah Naomi Green
Review by Ann Fisher-Wirth I am reading Leah Naomi Green’s The More Extravagant Feast for the fourth time, as I prepare to enter my fifth month of Covid-induced social distancing. It is especially good to have at this time,…
Call for MER VOX Submissions – Mother Speaks
Guest Editor Keisha-Gaye Anderson is a Jamaican-born poet, writer, visual artist, and media professional based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of Gathering the Waters (Jamii Publishing 2014), Everything Is Necessary (Willow Books 2019), and A…
Call for Submissions – MER VOX Folio on Range of Motherhood
Submissions on Range of Motherhood Do you believe your experience of mothering is underrepresented in publishing? Joline Scott-Roller, guest editor, is seeking submissions for a MER VOX Quarterly folio on the theme of “Range of Motherhood,” fiction/CNF (850 words) and…
Author’s Note – Athena Dixon
Athena Dixon On Writing The Incredible Shrinking Woman The Incredible Shrinking Woman opens with an essay, “A Goddess Makes Platanos,” that takes places in the center of chaos and redemption. In the mind of the woman who experienced it,…
The Distance From Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
Review by Lara Lillibridge Robin’s pretty privileged life comes crashing down after her husband dies, leaving her broke and forced to move back to Four Points, the depressed and decaying town she narrowly escaped by marrying Ray. There were…
Birthmarks by Whitney Rio-Ross
Review by Michelle Wilbert In this debut chapbook of poems by Whitney Rio-Ross—a writer and English teacher living in her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee—one is immediately struck by the juxtaposition of sturdy, straightforward language wrapped around familiar stories of…
What is in the Blood by Ellen Stone
Review by Christina Veladota Ellen Stone’s poetry is beautiful and is distressing in its beauty. Winner of the 2013 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press Chapbook Contest for The Solid Living World, Stone has a prolific publishing history in literary journals…
Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity by Artress Bethany White
Review by Laura Dennis “Telling the right story at the right time is one way to open the door for everyone,” writes Artress Bethany White in “Hard-Headed Ike: A Paean to Black Boyhood” (148), the eleventh of thirteen essays…
