Mom Egg Review publishes reviews of recent books (including chapbooks) of poetry, fiction and creative prose, by mother writers, and of books focused on motherhood or women’s experiences and issues. If you are interested in having your book reviewed, please visit Book Review Request for more info.
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Review by Jessica de Koninck With a keen eye for the ironic and with dark humor, A Temporary Dwelling (Spuyten Duyvil Press), Jiwon Choi’s third poetry collection, engages deeply with impermanence and loss. Jiwon Choi is a poet, teacher…
Review by Deborah Leipziger Fierce and gentle, Anne Elezabeth Pluto’s poems in How Many Miles to Babylon hold all of the essentials of life: love, death, memory, and books. In this powerful collection, the poet dances with the dead,…
A Literary Reflection by Ellen Meeropol I approached reading this novel with the mixed emotions I feel when beginning any novel set in the activism of the 1960s. With fascination, because my world view and personhood was formed in…
Review by Jordan E. Franklin For those of you new to Sarah Sarai, she is a NYC-based poet and editor with a prolific publication record spanning several collections. While most poets experience a lag in their work and output,…
Review by Elizabeth Brown The Fiction of Stillness is Robyn Hunt’s second collection of poems. Her first collection, The Shape of Caught Water, was published by Red Mountain Press in 2013, winning the New Mexico Press Women’s Association Award…
To you who took flight suddenly: a review by Jennifer Jean In her introduction to Song of the Ground Jay: Poems by Iranian Women 1960-2023, editor Mojdeh Bahar tells us that the jay in the title is a desert…
Review by Jane Ward Imagine walking along a pier with your children. Your daughter points to something, a bird circling the ocean, perhaps, searching for fish. Your eyes leave your young son for one minute, or less–an instant. When…
Review by Laura Dennis The expression “mom in space,” might bring to mind a woman suffering from “mom brain,” COVID brain fog, or some combination thereof. The cover of Lisa Ampleman’s third full-length poetry collection, however, indicates we are…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg Perhaps it was serendipitous that Barbara Crooker’s evocative and engaging book of poems on the rewards and ravages of aging landed in my hands as I approach my seventieth year. Like many of a certain…
Review by Carla Panciera Although Take Me With You Next Time is Janis Hubschman’s debut collection, the author is no stranger to the literary world. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals and have garnered prizes from the Bellingham…