Octogenarian Sips Glass Half-Full When I walk down the street, a stream of smiles rolls towards me like a school of rainbow fish. I guess I must wear quite a grin. My style’s just Carpe diem – blow and make a wish! Look honey, when you’re my age, each day’s breath should get its own bright candle, wax and all. How many people celebrate the death of old ex-husband’s lovers? Have a ball. Most difficult about living alone? Convincing people that if I don’t go to Saturday night toothless Bingo – so? Well what the hell’s the difference? Leave me…
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Poets discuss their experiences participating in the “Seeking Your Voice” writing workshop and in “The Mother Dispossessed” project: Srividya Kannan Ramachandran feels that the workshop has improved her writing and helped her develop a better appreciation for poetry. She believes that this nurturing group of people made working on “The Mother Dispossessed” project fun and deeply moving at the same time. Elisabeth Frischauf – A member of the workshop for many years, she credits the group with unearthing her own voice, as well as developing a refined sensibility for other poets’ works through the study of past and contemporary…
We Women Three “Oh no,” my daughter and I gulped in unison as we saw the slack elastic of my mother’s folded underpants. Stained blouse fronts, gaps of stitching in side seams of thirty-five year old dresses run out of time. She thrilled to sew the delicate florals. Repaired while she could still see struggling with the lousy later generation plastic Singer made who knows where 40th anniversary present from her husband, the engineer. He believed in brand, stuck-in-time. We plunged into the closed society of just the two of them. Emptied her side of the dresser. Went to GAP,…
Note: A version of this photo was exhibited at the ‘Nasty Women’ exhibit at The Knockdown Center in Queens NY Jan. 2017. It was also multiple signage at NYC and Denver and SF Women’s Marches Jan. 21, 2017 GUARDIAN: All who identify as mothers have spent millennia protecting what we hold fiercely dear – Refuse Resist Repeat. Holly Anderson has been anthologized in Up is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, Wreckage of Reason II: An Anthology of XXperimental Women Writers.The Night She Slept With A Bear will be available in 2017 as an LP from the…
A GUARDIAN protects us, and turned around and inward, is what we must protect. Laura Von Rosk earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from SUNY at Purchase. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally in both solo and group shows. Her awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship; an Individual Artist Support Grant from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation; an artist Fellowship Grant from the Bernheim Foundation in Clermont, KY; and residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Centrum, WA; Dorland Arts Colony, CA; NY…
A GUARDIAN represents someone who protects and supports what is of value and needs love. Rosary Solimanto is best known for her interdisciplinary activist based work which explores the objectification she faces battling multiple sclerosis. She encourages discourse on disability identity to unfold to empower the disabled. Solimanto is an emerging artist who has exhibited in New York City, New Jersey, North Carolina, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Hudson Valley, Connecticut, Toronto and Spain. She has performed in the O + Festival in Kingston, NY, The International Human Rights Art Festival In New York…
GUARDIAN: What is your superpower? For the first time, Wonder Woman and other superheroes beat out princess costumes on Halloween. Fearless Girl down on Wall St., though controversial for the right reasons, is a hot selfie at the moment. “Nevertheless, she persisted” is a popular tattoo choice right now. Some Hidden Figures are making their way to light. Women warriors and female heroes are emblazoned on our t-shirts, waving in our protest banners, and held in our hearts. Whether they are ancient goddesses, national politicians, international activists, or our mothers, daughters, sisters or partners, we are delighting in their power.…
An Interview by J.P. Howard, MER VOX Editor-at-Large, of Mireya Perez-Bustillo and Patsie Alicia Ifill I’ve been thinking a lot about friendships between women, and in particular between women writers, and how we often sustain one another. Not only do we write together through these tumultuous political times, but we often lift each other up, hold one another accountable, are able to call each other out on our stuff, and lovingly remind our sistagurlfirends about upcoming writing deadlines. For those who are parents, we share a special bond, and no matter our child’s age, we look to our friends for…
The Mother Dispossessed Curator: Patricia Brody Featured Poets Srividya Kannan Ramachandran Elisabeth Frischauf Esther Cohen Ellen C. Goldberg Lisa J Cihlar Jane Schulman Katrina Kostro Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins Alexandria Mitchell From the Curator: THESE VOICES Whenever I see the logo letters MER, first I think, Ah –Mermaid! then Mom Egg Review, and somehow these body-sea images of women’s magic beckon me to enter their depths. The poems and paintings you’re about to encounter, (hopefully you’ll stop and paddle around to see and experience from different angles) – are etched, colored, written by women in Seeking Your Voice: A Poetry and Memoir Workshop…
Review by Bunny Goodjohn It is hard not to feel something of the voyeur when interacting with the short-run chapbook Folie à Quatre. Its high gloss cover offers up a sepia-tint woman in a sheer chemise who appears disinterested or unfazed by her audience, in communion, perhaps, with her own naked body and thoughts. Beyond the cover, a sheet of tissue acts as a soft lens through which we discern the chapbook’s title page, heightening this sense of being privy to things conventionally cloaked, obscured, made secret. Past the title page, we encounter four sections of poetry by four female…