Eti Wade on the cover image from her series, MIGRANT MOTHERS – ‘Migrant Mothers’ is a series of photographs of mothers with their children. The title is a homage to Dorothea Lange’s famous photograph ‘Migrant Mother’ which recorded a young…
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Cynthia Hilts is a jazz pianist and vocalist, a prolific composer and lyricist, teacher, poet, practicer of many natural arts, and occasional painter. “Alexis” (and Zekai) is a rare pastel, as she usually works with watercolors. As a recording…
Excerpts from a photo essay by Hester Jones, “CALL YOURSELF A MOTHER.” View more photographs of this essay and more of Hester’s other work at www.hesterjones.com. Hester Jones is a British artist, based in London. She graduated from MA Photography,…
Women Writers Series – Photography by Roberta Fineberg http://www.robertafineberg.com/ The following portraits are selected from Roberta Fineberg’s collection of portraits of One Hundred Women Writers. Portraits of Innocence and Wisdom is a photo essay of approximately 100 women writers, shot roughly…
Dreams Against Absence I. First Night without my Son I gather the scent of my husband like a bed-sheet made of mice. Awake, the smell of our family scurries out from cracks in the walls. I cry this warmth made…
A Conversation with Hettie Jones for The Mom Egg, May 2011 Interview by Marjorie Tesser Part 1 – In this segment, Jones discusses independence and community, growing up in the 1950’s, the beat years, feminism and more. Segment 1 of 4…
She Dressed in a Hurry (for Lady Di) A Photo Poem Montage by Tania Pryputniewicz Photography by Robyn Beattie www.robynbeattie.com, Piano, Scriabin Etude, Opus 42#4, Stephen Pryputniewicz Text of Poem, originally published at Salome Magazine http://www.salomemagazine.com/chamber.php?id=301 Recent poetry by Tania…
Nicelle Davis lives in Southern California with her son J.J. Her poems are forthcoming in Broadsided, Front Range, Mosaic, Moulin Review, The New York Quarterly, Offending Adam, Picture Postcard Press, SLAB…
Interview by May Joseph On November 7, 2006, as she was writing her book Quickly Changing River, Meena Alexander was interviewed by May Joseph in New York City. J: Meena, I’d like you to talk about writing childhood. A:…
Marie Ponsot discusses her poetry book, Easy, motherhood, hiphop, and of course, poetry. Interview by Marjorie Tesser 2009. Marie Ponsot Easy from Marjorie Tesser on Vimeo. On writing and mothering: Marie Ponsot Advice from Marjorie Tesser on…