The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 22nd 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 To read more follow the link below March, 2017 Martha Joy Rose Art and Words by Martha Joy Rose
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Mom Egg Review Vol. 15 Our fifteenth annual issue includes work about pregnancy, birth, parenting, nurturing elders. MER is about mothers’ work, as mothers and in the world, as artists, and as citizens of our planet. Explore the many voices of motherhood in MER 15! MOM EGG REVIEW VOL. 15 – 2017 Editor-in-Chief Marjorie Tesser Poetry Editor Jennifer Jean Readers for Vol. 15 Jessie Bacho Patrice Boyer Claeys Elizabeth Lara Jennifer Martelli Ana C.H. Silva Becky Tipper Cindy Veach Nancy Vona Paulette Warren Contributors Carol Alexander Nina R. Alonso Keisha-Gaye Anderson Betsy Andrews Elizabeth Aquino Susan Ayres Patricia Behrens Susan…
Review by Hannah Cohen A beautiful book centered upon the knowns and the unknowns of being human, Margaret McCarthy’s collection Notebooks from Mystery School reveals the mundane and sublime in our lives—from domestic arguments to art and even mythological figures. The nomination for the New Women’s New Voices Award is clearly deserved for McCarthy’s intricate and affecting words. A talented artist on the page, stage and the wall, McCarthy includes intriguing black and white photographs, heightened forms of language for the theatre, and of course, her poetry in this work. She’s been in an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center…
Barbara Crooker has a new book out, Les Fauves, “a collection of ekphrastic poetry, meditations on paintings from the Fauve and Post-Impressionist movements. But it also contains poetry’s equivalent to Fauvism, poems that take a walk on the wild side…” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936196697/?tag=barbaracrooke-20 Hester Jones has new video piece called “Father Food” that will be exhibited at the new Animal Museum in LA, USA next week until April.The exhibition, SPOM, is a show of 14 international female artists who made work inspired by Carol J Adam’s The Sexual Politics of Meat and celebrates the 25th anniversary of this legendary book. “Father Food” is a video that shows…
The ProCreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 21st 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 This segment features art of Scotland by Aga Gasiniak and Laura Sloan Patterson’s prose piece, The Giraffe. February, 2017 Aga Gasiniak and Laura Sloan Patterson https://mommuseum.org/2017/02/05/in-her-own-words-painting-scotland/ Laura Sloan Patterson THE GIRAFFE There is a cry across the hall. Not…
Review by Barbara Harroun Joelle Biele’s Broom, recipient of the 2013 Bordighera Poetry Prize, studies life with such microscopic precision and attention that the daily cracks open as wondrous, perplexing, and miraculous. The poems, printed in English and translated into Italian on the mirrored page, gave me new eyes, new occasions to see, and lenses with which to reflect on the life I bring with me to the page. Devoid of sentimentality, these poems inquire into the webbed experiences of navigation—navigating motherhood and writing and traveling and illness and remission and the natural world. Biele’s rich imagery, diction devoid of…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg As her introduction to the evocative and carefully rendered poems of Untrussed, poet Christine Stewart- Nuñez uses a quote from Louise Glück who advises against poetry being read as simple “autobiography” and rather as narrative that “draws all the materials of life” including love with its risky and thrilling outcomes, and life experience/revelation that uses “the self as a laboratory in which to practice, master, what seem to you central dilemmas.” (qtd. in Grace Cavalieri’s The Last Word: The Poet and the Poem). The poetic construct that follows includes poems that alter episodes of intimacy with…
Sundress Publications has featured a panel put together by Mom Egg Review, “Baby Steps: How to Nurture a Great Writing Career After Having a Child,” as part of its AWP Roundtable Series. M.M. DeVoe of Pen Parentis, J.P. Howard of Women Writers in Bloom Salon, Julianne Palumbo of Mothers Always Write, and MER Editor Marjorie Tesser discuss strategies, challenges and opportunities for writers who also parent. To see the discussion, please follow the link below. https://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/awp-rountable-with-m-m-devoe-j-p-howard-julianne-palumbo-and-marjorie-tesser/
Review by Lisa C. Taylor This beautiful anthology, with its meditations on a motherland in relation to both country and transition couldn’t be more relevant to our times. Beginning with a knockout poem by Beth Ann Fennelly, “Latching On, Falling Off,” the reader is invited into the hypnotic state of a new nursing mother: “Soon, soon—I am listening—she swallows, / and a layer of pain kicks free like a blanket” and “Once, I bared my chest / and found an animal. Once I was delicious” (10). In Part IV, she addresses the cocoon of motherhood and also its profound isolation:…
Review by Grace Gardiner The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop isn’t Diane Lockward’s first walk around the poetry block. In this “collection of poems, prompts, craft tips, and interviews for aspiring and practicing poets,” Lockward—author of two chapbooks, four full-length poetry collections, and The Crafty Poet II’s elder sibling The Crafty Poet—demonstrates both her insight and skill in elucidating the many-faceted ways in which a poem pulses into existence on the page and in the ear. The collection is remarkable in the scope of voices it offers as teacher and example. Lockward structures the book into ten sections, each…