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
Full and Plum-Colored Velvet by Anne Graue
Review by Jamie Wendt Anne Graue’s first full-length collection of poetry, Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, expresses the beauty and loss…
Hallelujah Science by Kelli Stevens Kane
Review by Laura Dennis We usually hear “Hallelujah” as a joyful chorus, a sort of incantation expressing gratitude to…
These Few Seeds by Meghan Sterling
Review by Christine Stewart-Nuñez I tumbled through Meghan Sterling’s debut full-length poetry collection, These Few Seeds, the poems loose…
The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger The Hive puts a finger on what American media has been chasing since the Tea…
West : Fire : Archive by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Review by Sherre Vernon Iris Jamahl Dunkle was the 2017-2018 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, California and is the…
Lock Her Up by Tina Parker
Review by Barbara Ellen Sorensen In her haunting book, Lock Her Up, Tina Parker switches effortlessly between writing persona…
Bosque by Michelle Otero
Review by Carla Panciera I’ve never been to New Mexico, but after reading Bosque, a collection of poetry from Albuquerque’s…
Woman Drinking Absinthe by Katherine E. Young
Review by Lisa C. Taylor Rarely does a book come along that combines historical, literary, and artistic icons with the…
Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast – Rachel Thompson, Host
The Write, Publish, and Shine podcast will help you go from emerging writer to luminary author. Hosted by author and editor Rachel…
