Luana Venuti is an Italian born Artist based in London, England. Although she is self-taught, she is specialised in Manga Art and Portraiture. Her credits include the exhibition “A feminist space is…” at the Feminist Library (in London), her participation in the “Helsinki Comics Festival” (in Finland, under the Feminist Library group), the “Safari Festival” (in Shoreditch, London), the “Feminist Library Winter Fayre” and the “Mother Bunting” event in Stroud (in England).
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Felice Aull’s poetry collection, Mandatory Evacuation Zone, was published in July. Several poems originally published in Mom Egg Review are included. Poet Jean Marie Beaumont comments, “Felice Aull is always attuned to the histories and traumas that haunt the present locale, rendering each ‘place of flux and loss’ with careful observation and clear-eyed emotional candor.” See also www.feliceaull.com
June 2017 SUMMER In This Issue GALLERY: GUARDIAN: What is your superpower? CRAFT: Women Writers, Mothers And Friendships: How We Sustain Each Other POETRY: The Mother Dispossessed GALLERY: GUARDIAN: What is your superpower? Curator Ana Silva “… Women warriors and female heroes are emblazoned on our t-shirts, waving in our protest banners, and held in our hearts. Whether they are ancient goddesses, national politicians, international activists, or our mothers, daughters, sisters or partners, we are delighting in their power. This month we highlight work from visual artists that delves into the vitality, endurance, and fire of female guardianship, that…
March 2017 – SPRING In This Issue POETRY: Mothers Respond CRAFT: Self-Care As an Act of Survival in this Current Political Climate GALLERY: Sarah Irvin and Tsaurah Litzky POETRY: Mothers Respond Edited by Cindy Veach and Jennifer Martelli The poems in this folio explore how we, as mothers, have responded to the seismic changes over the past few months: are we or our children at risk? how do we explain this new year of division or loss? do we face these challenges as opportunities? Each of the poems in this folio gives voice to navigating this tumultuous world… …
December 2016 – WINTER In This Issue POETRY: Identity – A Folio Curated by Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach GALLERY: Megan Wynne – Art Curated by Ana Silva CRAFT: Poetry as a Reflection of Self on the Page Curated by J.P. Howard POETRY: Identity – A Folio Curated by Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach The poems in this folio consider the “Mom” identity from both the mother’s and child’s viewpoints and speak to the complicated relationship that exists between the iconic Mom and Mom as an individual. Each of the poems challenges us, in its own unique way, to confront…
October 2016 – FALL In This Issue VOX MOM: “Stretch Marks” Curated by Alana Ruben Free and Akilah Mosley FEATURE: “Getting It Right” – Novelist Lore Segal Interviewed by Laura Geringer Bass VOX MOM: “Stretch Marks” Curated by Alana Ruben Free and Akilah Mosley “Stretch Marks” is collection of poetry by a group of English language writers who have, temporarily or permanently, made their home in Israel. Whether born speaking English, Dutch, German, Hebrew or Arabic, each of us has had to stretch to adapt to a new tongue, new culture, and/or new religion…. Featured Writers: Akilah…
Review by Lisa C. Taylor TONGUE SHAKERS: Interviews and Narratives on Speaking Mother Tongue in a Multicultural Society, Margie Shaheed, Ed. This collection of interviews explores the obstacles and triumphs faced by immigrants as they learn English and begin to blend their identity and their mother tongue with the culture and language of the United States, their adopted country. The timeliness of this collection is part of its appeal. Immigration has moved from a vital part of our modern society to a political talking point. Hearing the real voices of people who struggle to simultaneously blend in while holding onto…
Review by Deborah Hauser Clothesline Religion, Megan Buchanan’s debut collection, is a paean to motherhood, domesticity, and transcendence. The poems flow freely without constraint, sections, or epigraphs. As explained in the “Author’s Note” (which I urge you to read), after trying different methods of organizing the poems, Buchanan discovered that they lined up alphabetically. Her devotion isn’t bound by scripture. She finds “God…everywhere” (54). She is spellbound by “ordinary magic” (49), finds grace in “stacks of white cotton diapers”(3), redemption in the “new slivermooon” (41), and joy in a child’s hair. The clothesline, and it all evokes, appears frequently,…
Review by Michelle Everett Wilbert I was 41 years old, a midwife and the mother of three children when our youngest daughter was born with spina bifida; a spinal defect of the earliest weeks of fetal development wherein the spinal cord fails to close properly. The ensuing sixteen years have been times of great joy and some sadness and frustration as we’ve tried—and often failed—to navigate what we’ve come to refer to as “disability world” in our pursuit of a life for our daughter outside a system of “services” designed to support people with disabilities which too often results in…
Bettering American Poetry 2015: An Anthology Eds Allen, Kim, King, Koo, Martinez, Ramirez, Sama, Villarreal & Wallschläger Reviewed by Carole Mertz The Bettering American Poetry 2015 project grew out of discontent. A group of editors were disgruntled by the fact that an author, Michael Derrick Hudson, received publication at a site by resubmitting a previously rejected work to the same venue, this time using an Asian-sounding nom de plume. His poem was published in The Best American Poetry 2015 without a word of explanation about the origin of the selection. The above-mentioned enraged editors were tired of the control…