Announcing Mom Egg Review Vol. 19!
In an extraordinary year, extraordinary voices on mothers, mothering, and motherhood. Mom Egg Review Vol.…
MER VOX Quarterly – Summer 2021
MER VOX Quarterly – Summer June 2021 ESCAPE – Ekphrastic Challenge & Other Curated Poems…
MER VOX + FEATURES (Words + Art)
Gabby Gilliam – Protogenoi
Gabby Gilliam Protogenoi The leaking nipple of a faceless mother speckled like Cerillos turquoise undulates through a polished universe…
Martina McGowan – Earth Mother
Martina McGowan Earth Mother —After Pat McCade Mother to all Transforming stardust into life With the amniotic fluid That…
Sarah Dickenson Snyder – It May Be Up to Us
Sarah Dickenson Snyder It May Be Up to Us This bruised earth so full of rockets and fire may…
Dawn Terpstra – [Re]Creation Myth with Bombs
Dawn Terpstra [Re]Creation Myth with Bombs –after Keisha-Gaye Anderson Dawn Terpstra lives in Iowa where she leads…
Jericho Hocket – Night Shift (the Wheel of Fortune tarot)
Jericho Hocket Night Shift (the Wheel of Fortune tarot) –for my mother Janice, upon her retirement You have remained…
Helen Bournas-Ney – Because
Helen Bournas-Ney Because Helen Bournas-Ney was born…
Sonya Schneider – May
Sonya Schneider May I A barn swallow builds her nest nearby she loops the sky when we open the…
Martha Silano – With Headphones Blaring, I Devotional Warrior
Martha Silano With Headphones Blaring, I Devotional Warrior by the sea, in the grass that is also lichens and…
Tim Tomlinson – Teaching My Mother to Zoom
Tim Tomlinson Teaching My Mother to Zoom 1 Why would I want to video? I don’t want to video. Because…
NEWS/EVENTS/REVIEWS
Best Microfiction 2021, Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, Eds.
Best Microfiction 2021 edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, guest edited by Amber Sparks A Micro Review by Celia…
How We Hold On by Karren LaLonde Alenier
Review by Sara Epstein Karren LaLonde Alenier, author of How We Hold On, has written seven previous collections of…
The Curator’s Notes by Robin Rosen Chang
Review by Tiel Aisha Ansari Robin Rosen Chang’s debut poetry collection, The Curator’s Notes, is filled with birds and…
Eleven Miles to June by Ha Kiet Chau
Review by Ana C.H. Silva Reading Ha Kiet Chau’s full-length poetry collection, Eleven Miles to June, published by Green Writers Press,…
Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon
Review by Lisa C. Taylor Kelli Russell Agodon’s brilliant new collection of poetry, Dialogue with Rising Tides elevates anxiety…
Marrow of Summer by Andrea Potos
Review by Christine Salvatore In a time of less travel, walls that seem to close in, and a little too…
Multiverses by Celia Lisset Alvarez
Review by Christine Stewart-Nuñez I usually don’t start a review of someone else’s poetry—especially such haunting work as Celia…
Object Lesson: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Jennifer Jean
Review by Lara Lillibridge Object Lesson: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Jennifer Jean is a 25-page teaching manual…
Loosen by Kyle Potvin
Review by Mindy Kronenberg Poetry about illness and the journey toward recovery can be the most challenging to write.…
