Jennifer Jean The Outsider Card in the Osho Zen Tarot From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Jennifer Jean is the author of a poetry collection titled The Fool. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, Waxwing, Crab…
Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach will be guest editors for poetry for our upcoming issue. Jenn and Cindy are accomplished poets and are passionate about MER’s mission to publish the finest literature of motherhood. They will continue to co-edit poetry…
IDENTITY A folio edited by Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach The poems in this folio consider the “Mom” identity from both the mother’s and child’s viewpoints and speak to the complicated relationship that exists between the iconic Mom and…
Jennifer Jean Speculating Grendel was the name of this grim demon haunting the marches, marauding around the heath/ and the desolate fens. ~lines 103-4, Beowulf 1. Sometimes, Grendel is a fist— is 5 or so dicks digging into 1…
Jennifer Jean Choose a card from the Tarot deck and write a story inspired by the card–feel free to look up the meaning of the card. Do not mention the title of the card, or Tarot, in your story. Jennifer…
Mom Egg Review and Half-Shell Press Present February Flash Challenge #febflash Join us this month for the February Flash Challenge #febflash, on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/febflash/) and Twitter (@themomegg #febflash. Participants set the goal of writing one piece of flash fiction…
Review by Jennifer Martelli – In “Wreck Things,” Jennifer Jean writes: ….My first step on water was for balance– my arms arced, clutching after the folds of those notes. The second step, for fright, caught me fast– divided between two…
Review by Jennifer Jean – “Why does it look like that?” my seven year old Chloe asked a few weeks ago, pointing to my bare breast as I tried to squeeze into an outworn swimsuit. I liked her question. “It’s a…
Review by Jennifer Jean – I love dark chocolate. The higher the percentage of bitter to sweet the better for me. No surprise then that I found myself gnashing on Nicelle Davis’ bitter-intensive poetry in Circe, her recent collection out…
Review by Lynne Shapiro – Once I got past my initial fear that The Archivist’s subject matter and language was too remote for my taste, I found I had misjudged the book entirely. I couldn’t put it down and read…