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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, 2020

Visions of Home

Visions of Home: A Poetry Folio This spring, in print and online, Mom…

March 14, 2020
Margaret Rozga – Poetry
March 14, 2020
Pramila Venkateswaran – Poetry
March 14, 2020
Melissa Joplin Higley – Poetry

June 14, 2018

Dorothy Rice – Home Movies

Dorothy Rice HOME MOVIES Grace arrived home and lingered in the darkened hallway,…

June 14, 2018
Cheated by Jacqueline Doyle
June 9, 2018
Peg Alford Pursell – Two Hybrid Works
January 31, 2016
#febflash

February 13, 2019

Jessica Feder-Birnbaum – Creative Prose

Jessica Feder-Birnbaum Just A Dog The dog is picky with food. His glands are swollen.…

February 13, 2019
Kathy Kurz – Creative Prose
January 14, 2019
Erica Hoffmeister – Creative Prose
January 14, 2019
Sally Donaldson – Creative Prose

January 15, 2018

Benjamin’s Bench – Ginny Contreras Sawyer

I have never been one to put off work. Quite the opposite, really. I complete…

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
December 14, 2016
Poetry as a Reflection of Self on the Page – Curated by J.P. Howard

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

March 14, 2020

Visions of Home

Visions of Home: A Poetry Folio This spring, in print and online, Mom…

December 16, 2019
Sacred Spaces
September 12, 2019
Soy Mujer – Latinx Poets of the Diaspora
January 14, 2019
It’s Complicated