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 Emily Webber Audra Kerr Brown’s collection of flash fiction, hush hush hush, at twelve stories and under forty pages, holds its power in its brevity. It is the shortest collection I’ve read this year, yet it stands…
Review by Lara Lillibridge Nicelle Davis is poet, collaborator, teacher, and performance artist residing in California who “…uses uses video, poetry, performance and publication to discuss topics ranging from artistic collaboration, feminist identity, poverty and power, and the environment.”…
Review by Gabby Gilliam Talk Smack to a Hurricane is a powerful debut collection from Lynne Jensen Lampe that explores the complicated relationship a child has with a parent who is mentally ill. Lampe’s mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia…
Review by Christine Salvatore In her first full-length poetry collection, long-time editor and reviewer Theresa Burns gives us a close-up examination of the everyday world around us. Riffing off Robert Frost’s much-loved poem “Design,” titular poems are sprinkled throughout…
Review by Sharon Tracey In Navigating the Reach, Mary Buchinger’s fourth full-length poetry collection, the poet wrestles with the slow grief and disorientation of losing a parent and one’s place in the world and how to make meaning of…
Review by Melanie McGehee Margaret Ray’s Good Grief, the Ground won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize in 2022 from BOA Editions, Ltd. and was published in their New Poets of America series in 2023. It is an impressive…
Review by Jessica Manack The Japanese practice of kintsugi has been much-referenced over the last years. Referring to a repair technique in which cracked ceramic ware is reassembled with glue and paint, often brilliantly golden or silver, the emphasis…
Review by Sherre Vernon I don’t know if it’s because Jessica L. Walsh shares my grandmother’s maiden name, or if it was her opening line: “My first found kin were killers” (1), but she had me from the…
New Poetry Books of Note Francesca Bell, What Small Sound. Red Hen Press 2023. Francesca Bell’s second collection of poems, What Small Sound, interrogates what it means to be a mother in a country where there are five times…
Review by Jennifer Pons Rebecca Foust’s seventh book of poetry, entitled Only (2022), investigates the fleshy corporeality of woman, mother, and citizen. With accomplished craft, intelligence, and vision, the collection traverses the acts of remembering and reflection, revealing the universalities…