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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

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June 13, 2020

Jennifer Franklin – Two Poems

Jennifer Franklin APRIL 2020, NYC The winds shake the windows. It has rained for…

June 13, 2020
Nicole Callihan – Poetry
June 13, 2020
Patricia Starek – Simple Request
June 13, 2020
Karen George – Poetry

June 13, 2020

Kathy Fish – Muriel’s Cyclone

Muriel’s Cyclone Kathy Fish It begins with a snowman who catches Muriel’s eye. It…

June 13, 2020
Tara Laskowski – The Return
June 13, 2020
Mary McLaughlin Slechta – Sparrow
June 13, 2020
Julia Strayer – Giving Up on the Professor

June 13, 2020

Anna Limontas-Salisbury – Grand Diva, Interrupted

Grand Diva, Interrupted by Anna Limontas-Salisbury When my daughter announced I was going to…

June 13, 2020
Danielle Stelluto – Single Parenting Through the Pandemic
April 14, 2020
Here, At Home – A Folio of Non-Fiction
April 14, 2020
Kelly Bargabos – All There Is

June 2, 2020

Legacy: On Our Poetry Mothers

By Ana C.H. Silva One of my poetry mothers, Sharon Dolin, once gently challenged…

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
June 13, 2017
Women Writers, Mothers And Friendships: How We Sustain Each Other

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

June 9, 2020

Riding the Dangerous Wind – A Folio of Flash Fiction

Curated by Tara Lynn Masih Riding the Dangerous Wind I’m so very glad…

June 9, 2020
Nurturing Through a Pandemic
June 2, 2020
Isolation – A Poetry Folio
April 14, 2020
Here, At Home – A Folio of Non-Fiction