MER Featured Fiction Death of the Water Bug by Lore Segal Lucinella wrote to Bridget: ‘We never outlive…
Month: September 2023
Tamara J. Madison Till Poem for Mamie Till We have buried you so…
Review by Melanie McGehee Margaret Ray’s Good Grief, the Ground won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize in 2022…
Review by Jessica Manack The Japanese practice of kintsugi has been much-referenced over the last years. Referring to a…
Review by Sherre Vernon I don’t know if it’s because Jessica L. Walsh shares my grandmother’s maiden name,…
New Poetry Books of Note Francesca Bell, What Small Sound. Red Hen Press 2023. Francesca Bell’s second collection…
Welcome to the Fall Edition of MER Quarterly! Food As Nourishment and Metaphor A Poetry Folio Curated by Jennifer…
Curated by Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach In her poem, “I will hunger,” Elinor Ann Walker states “All paths…
Jen Karetnick Babka “What they lacked in richness they made up for ‘with the delightful swirls,’ and the inclusion…
Raeshell Sweeting On weaning The day after it happened you walked up the steps holding onto the short rail.…