Close Menu
  • 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
    • Craft
    • Interviews
    • Book Reviews
      • Bookshelf
    • Authors’ Notes
    • Art Gallery
      • Special – Hybrids
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Poem of the Month
    • Events
      • MER 18 Virtual Reading – Voices From HOME
    • Currents
      • Announcements
      • Highlights
  • Shop
    • All Issues
    • One Year Subscription
    • Two Year Subscription
  • Submit
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
MER – Mom Egg Review
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube Tumblr Threads
  • 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
    • Craft
    • Interviews
    • Book Reviews
      • Bookshelf
    • Authors’ Notes
    • Art Gallery
      • Special – Hybrids
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Poem of the Month
    • Events
      • MER 18 Virtual Reading – Voices From HOME
    • Currents
      • Announcements
      • Highlights
  • Shop
    • All Issues
    • One Year Subscription
    • Two Year Subscription
  • Submit
NEWSLETTER
MER – Mom Egg Review
You are at:Home » MER Launch Party Press Release

MER Launch Party Press Release

0
By Mom Egg Review on May 4, 2018 Events

For Immediate Release:

MOM EGG REVIEW WRITERS TO READ ABOUT MOTHERS’ WORK
(AND PLAY) AT POETS HOUSE JUNE 2

Mom Egg Review celebrates MER 16, themed MOTHERS WORK/MOTHERS PLAY, with a reading by contributors at Poets House, 11 River Terrace, NYC 10282 on Saturday June 2, from 3-5 p.m.

New York, New York:

Poets and writers from across the country will read short pieces of fiction, poetry, and prose from the latest issue of Mom Egg Review at Poets House on Saturday June 2 from 3-5 p.m. The reading celebrates the launch of Mom Egg Review Vol. 16 themed MOTHERS WORK/MOTHERS PLAY. The reading, part of Poets House Literary Partners series, is open to the public. Tickets are $16, and include a subscription to the publication. Light refreshments will be served.

Short stories and poems about the many kinds of work done by mothers will be featured: nurturing, creating art, office work, housework, political work, physical labor. Jobs that lift you up and jobs that suck your soul. Work for pay, work for love, work for duty. And also, how mothers play, with children, with partners, with friends, on their own.

Featured readers include Robyn Art, Nina Bannett, Patrice Boyer Claeys, Lorraine Currelley, Jessica de Koninck, LeConte Dill, Elizabeth Ehrlich, Sara Epstein, Tatiana Forero Puerta, Heather Haldeman, Matt Hohner, Jennifer Jean, Deborah Kahan Kolb, Judith Lichtendorf, Tsaurah Litzky, Libby Maxey, Carol McMahon, Rebecca Olander, eve packer, Kristin Prevallet, Judy Swann, JC Todd. MER Editor Marjorie Tesser will host the reading.

Mom Egg Review is an independent journal publishing literary works on diverse experiences of mothering and motherhood. The critically acclaimed annual print journal is in its sixteenth year of publication. MER promotes and celebrates the creative force of mother writers and artists through publications, performances, workshops, and online, at momeggreview.com.
Mom Egg Review 16 Launch Party and Reading
Saturday, June 2, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Poets House
11 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282
Admission: $16 includes a subscription to MER.

 

Mom Egg Review, PO Box 9037, Bardonia, NY 10954       momeggreview.com

Contact: Marjorie Tesser MER Editor
Email [email protected]

Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
Previous ArticleM.A.M.A. Issue 30: Ching Ching Cheng and Jennifer Stewart Fueston
Next Article The Art of Making Hard Work Look Easy by Edward D. Currelley

Comments are closed.

September 17, 2025

SLIP by Nicole Callihan

September 17, 2025

& You Think It Ends by Amy Small-McKinney

September 17, 2025

Immigrant Hearts by Catherine Gigante-Brown

September 17, 2025

My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties by Elizabeth Sylvia

September 17, 2025

Flood by Christine Kalafus

September 13, 2025

“We bring you here to see dead things–” A poetry folio of the supernatural in motherhood

September 13, 2025

Diannely Antigua – ORCHARD REVISITED

September 13, 2025

Erin Armstrong – THE WEIGHT OF BODIES

September 13, 2025

Sara Ries Dziekonski – INVISIBLE

September 13, 2025

Lindsay Kellar-Madsen – MILK & MARROW

Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube Tumblr Threads
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Submit
  • Contact
MER - Mom Egg Review
PO Box 9037, Bardonia, NY 10954
Contact [email protected]

Copyright © 2025 MER and Mom Egg Review

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