The Mom Egg Vol. 8 “Lessons”
2010
Paper, 136 pages. $18
From The Mom Egg, a theme issue, “Lessons”, some to live by, others best ignored. Trenchant, lyrical, savage, and funny, the issue includes work by Kimberly L. Becker, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, James Cihlar, Janlori Goldman, Veronica Liu, Tara Masih, Susan Tepper, Kirstin Hotelling Zona.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Kimberly L. Becker – Language Class
Marian Kaplun Shapiro – Bah
Judith O’Brien – Ways To Say the World
Katherine Swett – Acrobatic Alphabet
Helen Ruggieri – A Gourmet’s Linguistic Analysis of Culture
Joanne G. Yoshida – The North Wind, Poetry, and Pimentos
Amy Watkins – Learning the Hard Way
Puma Perl – Baby Brother
Laurie Billman – A Lesson We Were Not Likely To Forget
Rosalie Calabrese – On Shavu’ot
Mindy Kronenberg – Charity
Ellen Saunders – Lesson
Elizabeth Schwyzer – Sitting In Mud
Veronica Liu – Playing
Theta Pavis – A Useful Man; Swallowed
Tara Masih – Catalpa
Mary Harter Mitchell – Poet
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett – fluff bunny
Sarah Buttenwieser – Fortunes
Lisa Williams – Birth
Luz Celenia – Warrior Mom
Jessy Randall – The Purpose of Us
Greta Bolger – The Beauty of Boredom
Kyle Potvin – Sound Travels on Water
Greta Bolger – Species
Colleen Michaels – Jet Boat Style
Angela Hooper – Learning to Draw
Julie Cline – Lesson Learned
Amanda Skjeveland – Sugary Fluff
Jessy Randall – I Kill Every Stuff
Radhiyah Ayobami – how i learned to let go
Elizabeth Enslin – What the Photo Shows
Dinah Lenney – Object Parade: Eggs
Teddy Norris – Patterns
Ana Silva – Self-portrait
Denise Emanuel Clemen – Conversation ‘66
Cheryl Boyce Taylor & R.H. Douglas – Home Training
Joan Mazza – The Family Line
Penn Kemp – Pattern
Cheryl Boyce Taylor – Sweet William for a Daughter-in-Law
Tania Pryputniewicz – Incarnation
Catherine Woodard – For Noticing
Amy Watkins – Ring of Fire
Jessy Randall – Celie at Four
Janlori Goldman – What the Body Carries
Ronda Broatch – What She Gave Herself
Charles Ries – First Blood
M.J. Fievre – Indigo Sky in Port-au-Prince
Marguerite Scott – Firsts
Roxanne B. Sukol – Time to Go
Carolee Sherwood – Providence
Gail Ghai – A Bag of Hammers
Kirstin Hotelling Zona – Jar
Kathryn M. Fazio – When I Woke Up and Saw Your Bike Gone
Lisa Argrette Ahmad – Resistance
Kris Woll – Fall: A Lesson
Emily Hayes – Late Night Runners
Lynn Hoffman – It Depends
Heather McAllister – William Ashley Peal
Alana Ruben Free – Black Fire/White Fire (excerpt)
E.J. Antonio – Ritual: The Second Day is Monday
E.J. Antonio – Sarah’s Altered State
Lee Schwartz – A My Name Is
Wendy Levine DeVito – I Dreamed We Had a Mango Tree
Jessica Feder-Birnbaum – A Living Wage
Monica A. Hand – Laundry Lessons
Rose Auslander – Unraveling
Lynne Shapiro – In the Parlor
Janet Chalmers – The Washerwoman’s Daughter (1902)
Kelli Stevens Kane – (74), (44), (75), (61)
Donna Katzin – Lerato’s Lullaby
Susan Tepper – Afternoon
Flora Trebi-Ollennu – Identity
Michael Haeflinger – on joining the navy
E.J. Antonio – tangerine moon (as told by red dress)
Golda Solomon – Miss Olive Holmberg Clinton Hill, Brooklyn 1962
Donna Vorreyer – Empathy Test
Puma Perl – Learning to Say No
Fay Chiang Resilience
klipschutz – [string search: “mother” and “memory” and “mine”] Sandra Ramos O’Briant – Toothsome
Louis Gallo – Stuffed Artichokes
Nancy Gerber – Eva
Liz Dolan – Lessons
James Cihlar – Bergen Mercy
Marcia Popp – what I wanted to do for my mother
Mary Harter Mitchell – Nothing to Do With Dionysus
Ana Silva – I plumb my mother
Nicelle Davis – Mother
Cynthia Kraman – First Night in the Cabin, New Year, Proust, My Mother
Heather Haldeman – The Visit
Mindy Kronenberg – Legacy
Rebecca Dosch-Brown – Recipe to Avoid Hate
Heather Truett – Love Your Brother
Allison Elrod – One True Thing
ART
Orna Ben-Shoshan Front Cover
Robyn Beattie
Kim McMechan
Ira Joel Haber
Mary Reilly
Ellen Rix