Tara Lynn Masih FLASH PROMPT The pandemic has forced many of us to either stay indoors or to explore the outdoors. Write about a vacation. A vacation inside a home (a “staycation”) or a vacation in the wild. Look back to your childhood for material: Did you go camping? Hiking? What were your family dynamics? Expand on that, or create a whole new vacation that takes place in the future and encapsulates something surprising. Don’t settle for mundane, and distill moments. Pay special attention to place and pull in as many of the senses as you can (sight,…
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Review by Michelle Panik When I read the premise of Come Along with Me to the Pasture Now, which that is a woman leaves her city for the countryside, I was instantly intrigued. In these times of digital overload and a protracted pandemic, who hasn’t considered escaping their reality for a simple, unprocessed life? And so, I should be forthright: I read Arielle Greenberg’s latest book both for pleasure and also—in case my world-weary despair should ever reach an actionable level—as a how-to manual. I assumed it would open with a few poems outlining the poet’s current dissatisfaction and…
Review by Ruth Hoberman What do we do with our grief? How do we make sense of the rest of our lives in the face of unbearable loss? Surely everyone, after losing a loved one, has wondered that. For Joan Kwon Glass, the question arose in 2017, when she lost her eleven-year-old nephew Frankie, then, less than two months later, her sister Julia (Frankie’s mother), to suicide. Night Swim is the chronicle of her survival: riveting, wrenching poems of wide-eyed grief. Night Swim’s five chapters are named after the five stages of grief Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described in her 1969…
Join us for the February Flash Challenge! #febflash is a chance for writers to establish or nurture a daily writing practice by focusing on short, flash pieces throughout this, the shortest month. Participants set the goal of writing one piece of flash fiction each day of the month. We will be featuring daily tips, optional writing prompts, advice, and encouragement from established authors and editors to inspire us! You are invited join our private Facebook #febflash group to post observations, successes and challenges, or to add your own prompts and tips to the community. Here’s to a fruitful February of…
Procreate Project, the Museum of Motherhood and the Mom Egg Review are pleased to announce the 51st edition of this scholarly discourse. Literature intersects with art 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 #artandmotherhood Feb 2022: Art and words by Clara Aldén The Mother of Frankenstein’s Monster, 2021 The Mother of Frankenstein’s Monster (2021) researches the production of bodies and identities in relation to motherhood. ” My…
Review by Tasslyn Magnusson Christine Stewart-Nuñez is here to guide us into the miraculous space of poetry built by architecture. In The Poet & The Architect, she shows us the blueprints of one family’s journey to connect – through action and word. Can you shape a set of master plans that both reveals one family’s journey and provides a structural map to your own (the reader’s) home of poems? Throughout this collection Stewart-Nuñez highlights the structures that connect us. In “Site Planning” it is the “interstates” and “neural networks” and the “lifelines” and “net” that shape a family’s physical…
MER Books for Review – Winter 2023 Our book reviews are approximately 750 words, and are published online at momeggreview.com. Please refer to our Book Review Guidelines for more information. If you’re interested in reviewing a book on our list, or another book that fits our parameters, please email us at [email protected].
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Review by Lara Lillibridge Diane Lockward is the editor of three other craft books and four books of poetry. Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council of the Arts and a Woman of Achievement Award, she is the founder and publisher of Terrapin Books, a small press dedicated to poetry. With 114 contributing poets, The Strategic Poet is the equivalent of attending a week-long writing conference in book form. The book is divided into thirteen sections, and begins with a craft essay by award-winning poets, including Ellen Bass, Danusha Laméri,…
Review by Kimberly Lee At first glance, Meg Pokrass’ latest flash fiction collection Spinning to Mars—a slim volume of approximately 70 shorts—appears to be a quick read. Yet the book, which takes readers on a journey of intimate and common themes, is best appreciated when read slowly, even aloud, as one might read a selection of poetry. Each piece, written in Pokrass’ characteristic engaging style, seems to unwrap itself on its own terms, prompting an unhurried, satisfying digestion. Spinning to Mars follows Pokrass’ previous Alice In Wonderland Syndrome as her seventh compilation of flash fiction, comparable in acclaim with…