March 2017 – SPRING
In This Issue
POETRY: Mothers Respond
CRAFT: Self-Care As an Act of Survival in this Current Political Climate
GALLERY: Sarah Irvin and Tsaurah Litzky
Photo by Tracey Capobianco Ranauro
POETRY: Mothers Respond
Edited by Cindy Veach and Jennifer Martelli
The poems in this folio explore how we, as mothers, have responded to the seismic changes over the past few months: are we or our children at risk? how do we explain this new year of division or loss? do we face these challenges as opportunities? Each of the poems in this folio gives voice to navigating this tumultuous world…
January Gill O’Neil – Post-Inauguration
Colleen Michaels – Origami
Amy Strauss Friedman – Aleppo in the Heart of the Living Room; Archipelago
Kali Lightfoot – Icarus Takes a Window Seat
Martha Silano – Poem for the New Year
Jennifer Militello – Instructions for Motherhood; Apocalypse Church; The Problems of Mothers
Carla Panciera – Winter Baby
Jean Monahan – Sunflowers;
Lines Written on the Election of 2016
Kelly Cressio-Moeller – How to Survive a Dictator
CRAFT: Self-Care As an Act of Survival in this Current Political Climate
Curated by J.P. Howard
…I’ve been wondering how my sisters across the country are practicing self-care these days and I reached out to a few writer friends, all mothers and all activists in their own ways. I invited them to speak on self-care and what that might look like to them, at this particular point in time…
Wendy Angulo – Unplug, Rest, Be Grateful
Radhiyah Ayobami – Return to the Bush
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie – Ten Tips for Self-Care
Qiana Towns – Teaching as a Form of Self-Care
Sunu Chandy – To Satya From Satya
GALLERY: Sarah Irvin and Tsaurah Litzky
Curated by Ana Silva
Child Citizen Project – Sarah Irvin
Self Portrait with hangover