Reviews
Mom Egg Review publishes reviews of recent books (including chapbooks) of poetry, fiction and creative prose, by mother writers, and of books focused on motherhood or women’s experiences and issues.
If you are interested in having your book reviewed, please visit Book Review Request for more info.
If you are interested in reviewing books for us, please check out our page of Books for Review and email us at [email protected]

Tanto Tanto by Marina Carreira
Review by Christine Salvatore What washed over me as I read Marina Carreira’s new book of poetry, Tanto Tanto,…

Sweetbitter by Stacey Balkun
Review by Ana C.H. Silva From the very title of her latest full-length poetry collection, Sweetbitter (Sundress 2021), we understand…

Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For, by Marjorie Maddox
Review by Janet McCann Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For is a luminous book that combines Marjorie Maddox’s poems with…

And If the Woods Carry You by Erin Rodoni
Review by Michelle Panik In a world like ours—unstable, inconsistent, and rife with turmoil—And If the Woods Carry You…

The Predatory Animal Ball by Jennifer Fliss
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger With whimsy, wit, and often uncomfortable situations, Jennifer Fliss shares an engrossing collection of…

Year of the Murder Hornet by Tina Cane
Review by Jennifer Martelli …

To Set Right by Lynne Shapiro
Review by Mindy Kronenberg To Set Right is a collection of poems that hovers in time and place, summoning…

Confini: Poems of Refugees in Sicily by Michelle Reale
Review by Jennifer Martelli In the acrostic poem that introduces Michelle Reale’s latest collection, Confini: Poems of Refugees in…

The Daddy Chronicles by Jayne Martin
Review by Celia Jeffries Today we have a growing genre known as fractured fairy tales and now, in The…

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas
Review by Abby Orenstein Ash I once nannied for a wise and sarcastic professor who told me, “This era…

Ferne: A Detroit Story by Barbara Henning
Review by Michelle Panik Barbara Henning’s biography of her mother, Ferne: A Detroit Story, arrived in my mailbox at…

Focal Point by Jenny Qi
Review by Ruth Hoberman Reading Jenny Qi’s Focal Point, I thought of Orpheus, whose songs so charmed the god…
Mom Egg Review publishes reviews of recent books (including chapbooks) of poetry, fiction and creative prose, by mother writers, and of books focused on motherhood or women’s experiences and issues. If you are interested in having your book reviewed, please visit Book Review Request for more info.
If you are interested in reviewing books for us, please email us at [email protected]