Kirun Kapur SPRING Then, through the window, I could just make out a cormorant immobile on a buoy, head high, wings fully open, a totem, black mark against morning. I was about to turn away when it shifted, twisting, slipping into the water, first otter, then eel— a moment later I could have sworn a girl with dark hair surfaced. No time to blink and the bird was back, swallowing prey, lifting its head, pressing wings to the sun. I watched to be sure it was real, a bird who can escape—change shape after shape— who can become a girl…
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Tina Kelley I AM THE SEXY MUSEUM No more slow walking the sandstone edifice with marble floors that exhaust the feet. Within me, scurry from hall to hall. Who needs portraits of people bored past recognition? Have you ever sat for a portrait? Why galleries full of empty landscapes, of war heroes on horses, when men think about sex nineteen times a day, women 10? I don’t think of war heroes on horses ten times a day unless we’re talking sex with war heroes. I never liked horses. Bring me airbrushing and alabaster, mastery of aperture, harlequins in flagrante,…
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 28th 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 Rajaa Paixão Visit ProCreate Project for more work by this artist. Poetry by Gwen North Reiss Oz Like Dorothy you imagine that someone will…
MER editors Jennifer Jean, Jennifer Martelli, and Marjorie Tesser will lead a poetry workshop at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, to take place in Salem, MA the weekend of May 4th through 6th. Festival headliners include Sonia Sanchez, Kaveh Akbar, Duy Doan, Jeffrey Harrison, Dorianne Laux, Erika Meitner, Carl Phillips, Nicole Sealey, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Rhina P. Espaillat. For more information, please visit the Massachusetts Poetry Festival website. #MassPo2018 Poets On Poetry: An Ars Poetica Workshop “I, too, dislike it…” Marianne Moore What is poetry? More, what is YOUR poetry? Ever since Horace, poets have sought to define poetry, or express its…
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 27th 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 Carolina Brunelli Visit ProCreate Project for more work by this artist. Poetry by L.B. Williams L.B. Williams When You Were Wild (after Louise Erdrich) When you were far…
A Landscape for Loss by Erin Rodoni National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press, 2017 $15.00 [paperback] ISBN 9780990908234 Issa M. Lewis is the author of Infinite Collisions (Finishing Line Press 2017) and a graduate of New England College’s MFA in Poetry program. She was the 2013 recipient of the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and her poems have previously appeared in Mom Egg Review, Tule Review, Jabberwock, Blue Lyra Review, Pearl, and Naugatuck River Review.
Raising Jamie a mother & son poem for two voices “I can remember on this last trip out of New Bedford we ran into a hurricane off of Hatteras. I was in the rolling bed with my mother and the ship masts came down parallel with the water. The water was coming down the stairways…” —Interview with James Earle in 1974, recounting an event in 1906 Sometimes I think he had his sea legs first– It’s good for a boy Swimming in the ocean blue surface and he is in view to be at sea, there’s no better air than…
I have never been one to put off work. Quite the opposite, really. I complete tasks weeks, sometimes months in advance. I am organized, a self-starter, ahead of the game at all times. (When I try to arrive fashionably late to a social function, I still end up early.) Recently, for the first time in my life, I find myself putting off the number one chore on my to-do list, and it’s a scary feeling. I know it is happening. I recognize the signs, yet I’m powerless to stop it. My procrastination does not present itself in the tub of…
It’s probably a small miracle that I am even writing this. Time to write has become an even more precious commodity in motherhood. Yet, there is a need to write that did not go away when I became a new mother. Does that mean that I survived the vortex of being completely and absolutely captivated by my precious little one? Yes, I believe it does. Don’t get me wrong—there’s nothing more important to me than my child, but out of self-respect, and a feeling of urgency to write, I also make it important to carve out time for my creative…
Mothers Are Making Art: Art by Melissa Charlotte Thomas Poetry by Megan Merchant The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 26th edition of this 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 January, 2018 Art by Melissa Thomas words by Megan Merchant Art by Melissa Thomas The Mother and the Lemon The work will be exhibited at the Shelf…