Short call for submissions: Summer/Girl MER – Mom Egg Review seeks short nonfiction, fiction, or prose poetry, 350 words max., on the theme of Summer/Girl for an online folio to be published in June. Pieces should focus on a woman’s experience (girl, woman, mother, grandmother, etc.) as it relates to summer. Submit only one piece by 5/29/22. Include your brief bio. One submission per person. No fee. Please Note: For this short call we will respond by 6/6/22 only if your piece has been selected. Selected pieces will be published online on June 15, 2022. Submit here: bit.ly/summergirlsubmit
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MER Launch Readings are online now! View our gorgeous launch parties, with lightning-style readings of poetry and prose from our MER 20 “Mother Figures” issue! Hosted by Marjorie Tesser Hosted by Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach June 2 Featured Readers June 5 Featured Readers
MER Editor Marjorie Tesser to be Interviewed for Becky Tuch’s Lit Mag News Roundup May 3rd at 11 AM Eastern Click here to read/listen to the interview.
Jane Muschenetz Lviv, Ukraine Long before Reuters and BBC reporters signed off from it, Lviv, Ukraine was my hometown, I knew it by another name—Lvov, Ukrainian Republic, USSR is, like anyone’s childhood, I suppose, a dot on the map of time that no longer exists. None of us can ever go back to our soul’s point of entry into this world… Lviv is/was Ukrainian/Soviet/Russian/Polish/Slavic/Austro-Hungarian territory and all of them hated the Jews more or less equally… You see how tugging one tongue can unspool the entire tapestry? Lvov is the name of my birth city in Russian, which was…
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MER Submissions Open Now MER (aka Mom Egg Review) is open for submissions of literary work on motherhood. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. You need not be a mother to submit. April 15 – April 22, free “Early Bird” submissions; April 15 – July 15, Regular submissions ($3 fee or free with subscription purchase). Please see Guidelines for more info. https://momeggreview.com/submit
Karolina Zapal My Future Daughter During Adolescence My mother is crazy She passes out copies of her favorite poetry to us every morning with toast. She says I am just like her We both stick our noses in our books, hoping no one important catches us like we were colds I cannot count how many times I have opened a book and not finished it I want to be held firmly by words like an eyelash on my finger in the shower I can’t blow off to make a wish but I feel like a coward cozy, caught on…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg To Set Right is a collection of poems that hovers in time and place, summoning an almost mystical journey of resilience of the self, ancestry, history, and the fragility of the physical realm. Shapiro also connects her Jewish identity to the many revelatory rites of passage in her life, and the events of each of these eighteen poems float and shimmer on the page with the dream-like quality of the airborne subjects of a Chagall painting. The contents and titles of each work run sideways on the page, also presenting a “tilt” in the reader’s…
Review by Jennifer Martelli In the acrostic poem that introduces Michelle Reale’s latest collection, Confini: Poems of Refugees in Sicily, Professor Alex Otieno writes, “Liminal experiences of: working, loving, hoping, regaling, dancing and singing, summoning.” These poems, written in the voices of refuges from Africa, as well as the voice of the witness, occupy this “liminal space,” a space of confini: borders. Reale unflinchingly examines the borderlands of language, of confinement of the body, and finally, the poetry that witnesses the refugee who flees war, poverty, and environmental disasters that cause “any one of us to leave our home…
Review by Celia Jeffries Today we have a growing genre known as fractured fairy tales and now, in The Daddy Chronicles, we may be experiencing yet another new genre: the fractured children’s story. Not that this memoir is a tale for children, but that it reads like a children’s book. Do not be deceived by the lovely cadence of these short vignettes. Make no mistake: this is not a children’s book, but a book for adults, specifically female adults, specifically female adults who have grown up with absent fathers. The Daddy Chronicles opens with “Ode to the Lone Sperm”:…