Eggs (And God Remember Sarah, Genesis 21:1) (2013) video animation. Sarah LIghtman Art, Artist Statement and Bio
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Review by Kerry Neville An autobiography purports to be chronological account of a person’s life, a progressive recounting of the accumulation of cause and effect events. A memoir, however, is not a recounting but more of an accounting, a clear-eyed, introspective examination of significant (large and small) moments of the author’s life that, when gathered together in narrative, create meaning threaded through time. In short: an autobiography is the straight running stitch, while a memoir is the longitudinal and transverse warp and weft. Similarly, Ana Castillo’s memoir, Black Dove, is less a linear reckoning of the self over time…
Jill McDonough CAREFUL Josey kisses me Christmas morning in the kitchen and it’s so good we end up having sex on the floor. But we are old ladies now, laugh together while we stagger slowly to the ground, first one knee then the other gently down, ginger, hands braced on thighs or holding on to counters, cracking up and laughing all through the middle-aged lady sex on the kitchen floor, which is still hot as fuck, still more than any of us could have hoped to get for Christmas. Josey laughs while she says Careful and we remember flinging ourselves…
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…
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…