MER Launch Readings are online now! View our gorgeous launch parties, with lightning-style readings of poetry and prose from our MER 20 “Mother Figures” issue! Hosted by Marjorie Tesser …
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Here’s where we’ll be at #AWP22: We’ll see you at the BOOK Table – T 562! Special AWP prices! Free writing prompts! MER submissions and join our staff info! MER Meet-up At the Book Table Fri. March 25th 11-12 P.M.…
Review by Michelle Panik When I read the premise of Come Along with Me to the Pasture Now, which that is a woman leaves her city for the countryside, I was instantly intrigued. In these times of digital overload…
Review by Tasslyn Magnusson Christine Stewart-Nuñez is here to guide us into the miraculous space of poetry built by architecture. In The Poet & The Architect, she shows us the blueprints of one family’s journey to connect – through…
MER Books for Review – Winter 2023 Our book reviews are approximately 750 words, and are published online at momeggreview.com. Please refer to our Book Review Guidelines for more information. If you’re interested in reviewing one of the books below,…
Margaret D. Stetz “Whistler’s Mother” How strange how wrong a title Arrangement in Grey and Black for what begins in reddest flows of blood and grows like bars of color layered on a rainbow the mother-child relationship encompassing…
Review by Emily Webber Deadheading & Other Stories, Beth Gilstrap’s short story collection, portrays women in the Carolinas as they endure hardship and process trauma, and explores our connection with the natural world and family. Gilstrap’s flash fiction has…
Review by Christine Beck Jennifer Jean’s new book of poetry, Object Lesson, is not an easy read. The topic that weaves her poems together is the objectification and pain experienced by women who are mired in, or have escaped…
Review by Jennifer Martelli The poems in Rebecca Hart Olander’s debut collection, Uncertain Acrobats, not only recollect a father’s life, but also navigate the landscape of grief, making all movement breathtaking and physical. Olander’s mastery in her construction of…
Karren LaLonde Alenier Granddaughter Clara Spera explores Bubbie Ruth’s big closet my mom Jane Ginsburg was never hamstrung by her mom’s inattention no rather she and her brother were often smothered it’s not as if Bubbie caused collapsed lungs…