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Amplifying Women's Voices

MER VOX is the online quarterly publication of Mom Egg Review. MER VOX publishes creative written and art work, craft tips, interviews, hybrid works, and more, with new issues each December, March, June, and September. MER VOX focuses on motherhood and on the life experiences of women.

MER VOX Poetry Editors Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach
MER VOX E ditor-at-Large J.P. Howard

POETRY

FICTION

PROSE

CRAFT

OP/ED

March 14, 2021

Healing and Recovery – A MER VOX Folio

Welcome to the March 2021 VOX Folio: Healing and Recovery In her poem, “I…

March 14, 2021
Tina Cane – Poetry
March 14, 2021
Erica Charis-Molling – Poetry
March 14, 2021
Alexa Doran – Poetry

January 13, 2021

Jennifer Dickinson – No One’s Darling

Jennifer Dickinson No One’s Darling Etta puts on her pink dress with the slit up…

December 12, 2020
Breena Clarke – Mama Ascended
December 12, 2020
Melissa Coss Aquino – Visions of the Mother We Need
September 14, 2020
No Doors by Naomi J. Williams

February 13, 2021

Wendy Brown-Báez – Weathering The Storm

Wendy Brown-Báez Weathering The Storm In the 1980s, I was part of a…

February 13, 2021
Erin McGuff-Pennington – She Knew
February 13, 2021
Aimee Pozorski – It’s Nothing You Did
February 13, 2021
Elaine Terranova – Tantrum

August 29, 2020

Rage Hezekiah on Poetry Lineage

Legacy – Rage Hezekiah Legacy is a new series in which poets and writers reflect…

June 2, 2020
Legacy: On Our Poetry Mothers
January 15, 2018
Benjamin’s Bench – Ginny Contreras Sawyer
January 15, 2018
The Triple Routine: On Motherhood, Working & The Urgency to Write by Diana Norma Szokolyai

November 12, 2017

Myth of Motherhood Poetics by Jennifer Givhan

My children make myths in the games they play. My daughter holds out a book…

March 17, 2017
Self-Care As An Act Of Survival: A Folio by JP Howard
March 15, 2017
Teaching as a Form of Self-Care by Qiana Towns
March 15, 2017
Return to the Bush by Radhiyah Ayobami

February 13, 2021

Care – A MER VOX Folio

Care A MER VOX Folio of Poetry and Prose “Care” is a…

January 13, 2021
My Mother
December 12, 2020
Mother is Speaking
December 11, 2020
Pandemic Parenting