Arrows of Light by Andrea Potos
Review by Judy Swann Andrea Potos is obsessed with John Keats, as she says in “Verse Virtual.” So it feels natural to see her cite from his letters in “Morning of my 56th Birthday,” the opening poem of her…
Browsing: Judy Swann
M.A.M.A. Issue 24: Elisabeth Schön and Judy Swann
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 24th edition of this scholarly discourse intersects with the artistic to explore the wonder and the challenges of motherhood. Using words and art to connect new pathways between the academic, the para-academic, the digital,…
The Doll Collection, Edited by Diane Lockward
Reviewed by Judy Swann When my friend tells me this loss will open the way to all the others in my life I think of the way I am drawn (86) So says Wisconsin poet…
Ventriloquy by Athena Kildegaard
Review by Judith Swann In the the past 400 years, ventriloquism has outgrown its association with demons in the belly and has come to be associated with funfairs, vaudeville, Shari Lewis, Paul Winchell, the Letterman show (after Willie Tyler was…
Announcements – October 2016
News from the Mom Egg Review Community – Marge Piercy selected Rachel Hall’s Heirlooms for the G.S.Sharat Chandra Book Prize. BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City published the linked collection in September 2016. Heirlooms begins in France in…
My Champagne Waltz by Eve Packer and Stephanie Stone
Review by Judy Swann – The first recorded poetry I ever heard the Joan Baez Baptism album; and in the many years since, drunk with verse and swaddled in vocals, I had yet to hear another. Then I came across…