Review by Christine Stewart-Nuñez During a recent public reading, Heidi Czerwiec described the inspiration for her new poetry collection as the theory of maternal imagination—that a mother’s thoughts during pregnancy transmit to the developing fetus and result in congenital abnormality. As the mother of an adopted son, Czerwiec wondered whose imagination influenced his birth. In “Son, An Origin Story,” she claims her’s and her husband’s: “We grew you in the blown glass of our imagination, the way one does an apple for a flask of Calvados, literal distillate of our dreams” (53). Yet she didn’t stop with her answer…
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Trish Hopkinson’s literary blog is currently featuring our Call for Submissions for MER 17. She also interviewed MER Editor in Chief Marjorie Tesser about the publication, our focus, and what we’re looking for in submissions. Read it here: https://trishhopkinson.com/2018/04/23/no-fee-submission-call-interview-mom-egg-review-deadline-april-30-2018/
Nimrod International Journal’s 40th annual Literary Awards close this month. Judged this year by Patricia Smith and Rilla Askew, the Awards feature first prizes of $2,000 and second prizes of $1,000 in fiction and poetry categories, as well as publication for winners and finalists and some semi-finalists. Deadline April 30th, 2018. For more information: https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/awards.html.
Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach will be guest editors for poetry for our upcoming issue. Jenn and Cindy are accomplished poets and are passionate about MER’s mission to publish the finest literature of motherhood. They will continue to co-edit poetry for MER VOX Online Quarterly, where they have presented compelling folios based on Body Image, #MeToo, Challenging the Quintessential Motherhood Poem, and more. To learn more about our editors, check out our Masthead page. MER would like to express its thanks to Jennifer Jean for her able and inspired editing of poetry for our Compassionate Action, Change, General, and Mothers Work/Play…
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 29th edition of this scholarly discourse, in which art and words intersect 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 Saskia Saunders Saskia Saunders creates minimal constructed artworks, from domestic materials such as parchment paper, string and household linens. These are sensitively woven, wrapped…
Review by Jennifer Martelli In “Annalogue on Oranges,” Uljana Wolf writes, “ . . . . all travels are possible. / All ways of the voice that lead across it, are good” (69). As I read Wolf’s Subsisters: Selected Poems, I was constantly reminded that this collection is a translation of work by a translator. In translator Sophie Seita’s introduction, she refers to Wolf’s work as “the threshold of translation, on the Ellis Island of language” (7). Throughout this hybrid book of poems and prose, “English words are allowed to appear in the German text but not as loanwords…
Introducing Mom Egg Review 16 – MOTHERS WORK MOTHERS PLAY This issue of Mom Egg Review looks at PLAY and WORK through the lens of motherhood. Celebrated and emerging literary writers explore the following themes: The work of mothering, of creating art, of office work, housework, school work, political work, physical labor. Life’s work. Work that’s respected and work that’s denigrated. Jobs that lift you up and jobs that suck your soul. Our mothers’ and fathers’ work. The work of nurture. Work for pay, work for love, work for duty. Working on ourselves and working on our kids or on…
Please Join Us for a Launch Party June 2! Mom Egg Review Vol. 16 Launch and Reading Sat. June 2 2018 3 to 5 PM (Doors at 2:45) Poets House 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 Advance Admission $16 (includes a one-year subscription to MER) Contributors to the issue will participate in a “lightning style” reading of one poem or prose piece or excerpt (3 minutes per reader). TICKETS Advance ticket link: https://merliterary.com/product/launch-party-ticket/ Once you purchase your ticket, please fill out this form for your subscription address. https://themomegg.wufoo.com/forms/z1e29pb80if61mk/
MER VOX Quarterly – Spring 2018 Feast your eyes on fabulous poems and art! Body Image A Poetry Folio Curated by Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach Featured Poets: Kathleen Aguero Kirun Kapur Jill McDonough Michelle Reale Tina Kelley Dawn Paul Virginia Chase Sutton In The Gallery Art by Sarah Lightman Mothers Are Making Art Rajaa Paixão and Gwen North Reiss
For women body image can be fraught with conflict and cognitive dissonance. We are inundated with body images from the advertising and media world that are not representative of the full spectrum of womanhood … that don’t reflect the changes our bodies experience, not only as a result of pregnancy and childbirth, but of disease, disability, aging and more. This can make us feel less than and make it extremely challenging to achieve and maintain body positivity. The Mom Egg Review March VOX folio offers you poems that explore our relationship with body image, as well as poems that consider…