Birth Bed of blood and bone. Him her you us. The great usurper who knit himself from me. Tina Barry Trish Classe Gianakis received her B.F.A. degree from Arizona State University, and her M.F.A. in computer art installation from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Trish’s work has been shown in numerous galleries, including the Broom Street Gallery, NYC. Trish’s graphic arts won the Golden Addy Award for Best Interactive Web Design.
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Nocturne Your dreams settle over my sleep. A great smear of red. Bella. Sun singes my fingers when I touch. Onyx eyes and grim pressed lips. A tornado of birds circle. Her throat offers a thousand small wishes. Boots churning dust as the Poles threaten a rearranged world. A nun in white habit makes angels in the snow. Tina Barry I’m Clairvoyant When I Hold a Finger to My Ear I hear your call, brined in salt yet distinct. You challenge me to a…
Review by Lisa M. Hase-Jackson The poetry of Athena Kildegaard’s fifth book, Course, ranges from sparse to ample, vivid to subtle, and somber to lightly humorous. Leaning heavily toward the narrative, the collection’s apparent aim, to lead the reader through the underbrush of emotion inherent in human interaction and interference with the natural world, evolves into a contemplation on the life and death of the speaker’s mother. Interspersed with haiku-inspired observations, and drawing on a river’s course as metaphor, images of life cycles and natural law collude and connect the individual poems which make up this ninety-three page…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg I had become acquainted with L.B. Williams’ work for an earlier review in Mom Egg with her chapbook The Eighth Phrase, and learned how she deftly entwined place, rite of passage, angst, and ecstasy to create imagistic and memorable vignettes. It’s an attractive and curious little tome (a small square booklet of 16 poems with a bright, surrealistic cover) that catches one’s attention and opens into a much larger vista of ideas with each page. Her recent collection, In the Early Morning Calling, also presents as interestingly as it reads: the cover’s color and imagery seem…
Introducing My Real Name is Hanna, by Tara Lynn Masih Inspired by real Holocaust events, this poignant debut novel is a powerful coming-of-age story that will resonate with fans of The Book Thief and Between Shades of Gray. Highly recommended by the Jewish Book Council, it’s sure to be a wonderful addition to your mother/daughter bookclub. A 2018 Skipping Stones Honor Award Book Hanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler’s army crosses the border into Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Soon, the Gestapo closes in, determined to make the shtetele she lives in “free of Jews.” Until the German occupation, Hanna spent her time exploring Kwasova with…
Review by Ros Howell “They are used to us being afraid of them. Don’t be afraid” (45). Maria Alyokhina was one of three members of the Russian feminist protest punk-rock collective Pussy Riot who were arrested in 2012 after performing their “punk prayer” at the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. At the subsequent trial Alyokhina and her band mate Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years imprisonment. Media attention was rife and Pussy Riot divided the world – in particular the Russian nation – as…
Not Your Mother’s Midwife Review by Judy Swann This skillful translation and the well-written, consciousness-expanding essays and appendices in which it is nestled, are a landmark contribution to the scholarship of early modern times. In a certain sense, Louise Bourgeois is the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective of her day; and her Observations diverses sur la stérilité, perte de fruit, et fécondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveauz nés is the Our Bodies Our Selves of 1626.The text covers a lot of ground in good, plain-spoken French — sterility, miscarriage, fertility, childbirth, hemorrhoids, the diseases of women and…
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 33rd edition of this collaboration in which scholarly discourse intersects with the artistic to explore the wonder and the challenges of motherhood. Using words and art to connect new pathways between the academic, the para-academic, the digital, and the real, as well as the everyday: wherever you live, work, and play, the Art of Motherhood is made manifest. #JoinMAMA Art by Kate Walters Kate Walters’s works explore themes around the disembodied uterus, the narcissistic mother, and the connections we have with animals and wilderness. Kate Walters’…
In an article in The Review Review, Angus MacCaull had this to say about MER: Mom Egg Review bills itself as a “literary journal about motherhood” but it is so much more. “Your eyes will fall out of your head,” said De Voe. Taking an unsentimental view of motherhood, you’ll find beauty without false promises at the intersection of motherhood and the arts—it very evenhandedly integrates the two, instead of seeking “balance” between two disparate entities. Mom Egg Review is a print journal, but you can also get MER VOX Quarterly, their online publication, right in your inbox. Instead of articles about motherhood, you’ll…
New Play by Rosie Rosenzweig A ghost hovers watching and waiting to embody itself in the most auspicious womb. Its goal is to fulfill what it couldn’t in its last lifetime called “soul work.” Myths & Ms. is an intergenerational play about abortion and reincarnation, dramatizing the changing attitudes and conditions towards abortion in the 20th and 21st centuries. This idea of reincarnation highlights the strident voices from the pro-choice and pro-life camps. Rosie Rosenzweig, Resident Scholar in the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, is also a Boston theatre reviewer. Her travel memoir, A Jewish Mother in Shangri-la, explores her son’s introduction…