Lisa DeSiro Living Room From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Poem: Living Room (by Lisa DeSiro) from Lisa DeSiro on Vimeo. Lisa DeSiro is the author of Labor (Nixes Mate, 2018) and Grief Dreams (White Knuckle Press, 2017). Her poetry is featured in various anthologies and journals, and has been set to music by several composers. Lisa is employed as the Production & Editorial Assistant for a non-profit organization; in addition, she is an editor for Indolent Books and a freelance accompanist. Read more about her at thepoetpianist.com.
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Elizabeth J. Coleman Galaxy From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Elizabeth J. Coleman is editor of HERE: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), and author of two poetry collections, The Fifth Generation and Proof (both from Spuyten Duyvil Press). Proof was a finalist for the University of Wisconsin Press Prizes. She has also written two poetry chapbooks. Elizabeth is co-author of Pythagoras in Love (Folded Word Press, 2015), a bilingual sonnet collection. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and poetry anthologies.
Raylyn Clacher And I Am Alright From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Raylyn Clacher lives in Wichita, Kansas. When she’s not busy keeping her two children alive, she moonlights as a poet, teacher, and editor. Her work can be found in journals such as South Dakota Review, burntdistrict, and Chiron Review, among others. Her chapbook, All of Her Leaves, is available from dancing girl press. She firmly believes that these are the best days, even when they seem like the worst.
Christine Stewart-Nuñez Simplifying From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Poet and memoirist Christine Stewart-Nuñez is the author of Postcard on Parchment (2008), Keeping Them Alive (2010), Untrussed (2016), and Bluewords Greening (2016), winner of the 2018 Whirling Prize. She is a Professor in the English Department at South Dakota State University, and the current South Dakota Poet Laureate. Find her work at christinestewartnunez.com.
Barbara Crooker Pentimento From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Barbara Crooker on “How I Wrote It” – I was teaching a workshop at a summer conference and had cleaned out my spice cupboard, passing around different scents to inhale as a prompt. I caught a whiff of cinnamon, and was off. . . . Barbara Crooker is a poetry editor for Italian Americana, and author of nine full-length books of poetry; Some Glad Morning (Pitt Poetry Series) is her newest. Her awards include the WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred…
Erica Bodwell Child, Mother From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Erica Bodwell is a poet and attorney who lives in Concord, New Hampshire. Her full-length manuscript,Crown of Wild, was a finalist for the 2018 Four Way Books Larry Levis Prize and won the Two Sylvias Press 2018 Wilder Prize and is forthcoming in 2020. Her chapbook, Up Liberty Street, was released in March 2017 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in PANK, APIARY, HeART and other journals. Her website is ericasoferbodwell.com.
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Margo Orlando Littell on The Distance from Four Points My Characters’ Trapped-in-Amber Fate When I started writing The Distance from Four Points in 2013, pandemics were something safely tucked away in the world of science fiction or dystopian fiction—not the gritty, realistic literary fiction I was working on. Yet here we are. My novel is coming out when the unimaginable has become our daily life. It hasn’t even seen a bookstore shelf and already feels like a relic. In The Distance from Four Points, Robin Besher must leave her affluent suburb and return to her Appalachian hometown to…
Review by Deborah Leipziger Susan de Sola’s poems are like sea glass arriving on the shore: beautiful, crystalline, and surprising. Her first poem “Bowl of Sea Glass” conveys a tactile joy: The sea’s soft fingers of anemone know to open in the dark. … The sea lifts, pounds the glass. Insists on randomness. De Sola’s poems transcend place and time. From Mt. Etna to Holland to a Jewish cemetery in Marrakesh; to Little Odessa and Bryn Mawr, we are transported. De Sola is a boundary spanner – she spans countries and continents and her identities give her…
Marjorie Maddox On Writing Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises I didn’t plan on publishing a book during a pandemic. You may not have planned on reading it then, either. But, since most of us are now inside, Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises will, I hope, find its way inside the lives of your middle-grade and YA children, as well as become an inner part of your own writing practices. If you are also a teacher, this is also a book for you, especially if you are looking…