MER vol. 20 “Mother Figures” Print Issue PDF Issue Our twentieth annual print issue is themed “Mother Figures,” cultural icons representing motherhood. What is a mother figure? What have we been told or shown by them? What values do…
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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 …
In an extraordinary year, extraordinary voices on mothers, mothering, and motherhood. Mom Egg Review Vol. 19 Order the Print Journal Order a PDF Copy Marjorie Tesser, Editor in Chief Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach, Poetry Editors Contributors
What and Where is HOME? The new issue of Mom Egg Review considers the nature of “home”— Is a home a place, a feeling, a center, a community? Home land. Home base. Torn between homes. Unhoused. Also home neighborhood, others’…
Coming Soon: Mom Egg Review vol. 18 – 2020 “HOME” Welcome to Mom Egg Review’s eighteenth annual issue. We are proud to publish fine literary work centering on diverse experiences of mothers, mothering, and motherhood. The new issue of…
Welcome to Mom Egg Review’s seventeenth annual issue. We are proud to publish fine literary work centering on diverse experiences of mothers, mothering, and motherhood. This has been a complicated year in a series of complicated years. Countries and factions…
Introducing Mom Egg Review 16 – MOTHERS WORK MOTHERS PLAY This issue of Mom Egg Review looks at PLAY and WORK through the lens of motherhood. Celebrated and emerging literary writers explore the following themes: The work of mothering, of…
Mom Egg Review Vol. 15 Our fifteenth annual issue includes work about pregnancy, birth, parenting, nurturing elders. MER is about mothers’ work, as mothers and in the world, as artists, and as citizens of our planet. Explore the many voices of…
Mom Egg Review Vol. 14 “Change” – Welcome to Mom Egg Review Vol. 14! This issue explores “Change.” Change can be a lightning bolt, a bud’s unfurling, or the inexorable melt of ice caps. A body swells with pregnancy, bends…
Nadia Colburn THE PHYSICAL WORLD For nine months I anticipated, as the other end of pain, a revelation: a world turned inside out. Each inch I grew marked a promise: my present physical certainty, my approaching release. And, indeed,…