Review by Emily Webber We all feel fear, and many of us are plagued by irrational fears that live in…
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Review by Laura Dennis One does not soon forget a book that alliteratively offers a “huge, homosexual umbrella,” not…
MER Best of the Net Nominations Poetry June 14, 22 (Summer Girls) Terri Linton, “Boogie Down Girls” March 13,…
MER vol. 20 “Mother Figures” Print Issue PDF Issue Our twentieth annual print issue is themed “Mother Figures,” cultural…
RaShell R. Smith-Spears A Writer Speaks of Lineage My foremothers were magic. Their nimble fingers squeezed syntax into cauldrons…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg In an interview in Literary Mama this past spring with editor Christina Consolino, Allison Blevins…
Review by Claudia Putnam In the title poem of this debut collection, the speaker’s father has a saying: Since…
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger An ABD (all-but-done with dissertation) doctoral student absent of motivation, an artistic worker trapped…
Review by Lara Lillibridge You ask any four-year-old what they want to be when they grow up, and the…
Review by Ruth Hoberman “When I kiss her, I bend lower than I used to.” So thinks an adult…