• Home
    • About
    • Masthead
    • Links
  • MER Journal
    • Latest Issue
    • Back Issues
    • Subscribe to MER!
  • MER Online
    • MER Quarterly
    • MER Literary Folios
    • Poetry
    • Fiction
    • Creative Prose
    • Essay
    • Interviews
    • Book Reviews
    • Craft
      • Authors’ Notes
    • Art Gallery
      • Special – Hybrids
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Events
      • MER 18 Virtual Reading – Voices From HOME
    • Currents
      • Announcements
      • Highlights
  • Shop
    • All Issues
    • One Year Subscription
    • Two Year Subscription
  • Submit
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Facebook Twitter Instagram
MER – Mom Egg Review
  • Home
    • About
    • Masthead
    • Links
  • MER Journal
    • Latest Issue
    • Back Issues
    • Subscribe to MER!
  • MER Online
    • MER Quarterly
    • MER Literary Folios
    • Poetry
    • Fiction
    • Creative Prose
    • Essay
    • Interviews
    • Book Reviews
    • Craft
      • Authors’ Notes
    • Art Gallery
      • Special – Hybrids
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Events
      • MER 18 Virtual Reading – Voices From HOME
    • Currents
      • Announcements
      • Highlights
  • Shop
    • All Issues
    • One Year Subscription
    • Two Year Subscription
  • Submit
MER – Mom Egg Review
You are at:Home»Curated»Storied Mothers»Mother Figures – Storied Mothers

Mother Figures – Storied Mothers

0
By Mom Egg Review on October 14, 2021 Storied Mothers, VOX Folio

Mother Figures – Storied Mothers

In this, our second* “Mother Figures” folio, we feature “Storied Mothers.”

Once upon a time, traditional stories, myths, and fairy tales were dangerous places for mothers. Mothers were either sainted, but doomed, or evil incarnations, warped anti-mothers to escape from or to vanquish. Either way, they’re not often main characters, but accessories to their children. Either way, they often disappear, victim of a thesis that the mother must be eliminated for the child to self-actualize. Here, poets interrogate and reframe some old tales to center the mother and give her an alternative reading and voice.

 

Carol Alexander – O Wicked Stepmother
Richelle Buccilli – Cinderella Thinks About Motherhood
Kristin Indorato – Mouths
Abriana Jetté – Persephone Responds
Tina Kelley – Just One More, Mama
Michael Montlack – Stevie Nicks as Fairy Godmother
Mireya Perez-Bustillo – A Cow Jumped Over the Moon
Jeri Theriault – Demeter in the sixth stage of grief
Sherre Vernon – Photograph, As I’d Have You See Me
Jane Yolen – Bambi Haiku

 

*View our first “Mother Figures” folio, “Other Mothers.”

Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
Previous ArticleCarol Alexander – O Wicked Stepmother
Next Article Her Kind by Cindy Veach

Comments are closed.

February 1, 2023

Poem of the Month – February 2023

January 14, 2023

Judgment

January 14, 2023

Blair Hurley – Breastfeeding and the Early Sacrifices of Motherhood

January 14, 2023

M.A.M.A. issue 54 – Mathilde Jansen and Lisa DeSiro

January 14, 2023

Maram Al-Masri – Poetry

January 14, 2023

Noreen Graf – After Your Mother Dies and What If I Don’t

January 14, 2023

Cristi Ackerman Wells- My Mother

January 14, 2023

Starr Davis – Strange Fruits

January 14, 2023

Elīna Eihmane – Night Mommy

January 14, 2023

Heather Lanier – Origin Story with Porcelain Duck

Copyright © 2022 MER and Mom Egg Review
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Submit
  • Contact

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.