Review by Laura Dennis When you hear “fragile objects,” what is the first thing that comes to mind? Do you think of valuables one keeps locked in a case lest they be destroyed, or does your mind immediately reach…
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Review by Mary Ellen Talley Kate Reavey brings a sense of the circularity of seasons and motherhood in CURVE, her first full length poetry collection. The five sections of free verse encompass an arc of personal experiences: motherhood, parenting,…
Review by Gabby Gilliam In her captivating debut poetry collection, Ellis Elliot delves into the multifaceted role of mothering. In her poem “Anthem”, she writes “This is about every mother, everywhere, and the dreadful dark we find ourselves in…
Review by Melanie McGehee a petit mal, the debut nonfiction work of visual artist and poet Ana Maria Caballero was awarded The Black Spring Press Group’s International Beverly Prize and was a finalist for AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize. A…
Review by Angela Williamson Emmert Minnesota poet Jennifer Manthey opens her award-winning, debut collection The Fight not with conflict but with an unexpected, though fraught, agreement. “U.S. Embassy, Kinshasa, DRC” describes the process of an overseas adoption through a…
Review by Teresa Tumminello Brader LaToya Jordan has many illustrious writing credits, including a piece in Mom Egg Review 13; several are devoted to the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, and she writes across several genres. To the…
An Interview with Debut Memoirists Lauren Kay Johnson and Paige Towers Interview by Emily Avery-Miller The Fine Art of Camouflage by Lauren Kay Johnson is a debut memoir that explores what it means to be a woman in a…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg Jennifer Jean’s new collection of poems, a powerful memoir of both dispirited and defiant vignettes, captures the wistful journey of seeking connection to one’s origins, obtaining a sense of belonging, and enduring the emotional dissonance…
Review by Ruth Hoberman Melissa Crowe’s Lo (her second collection of poems) is compelling, even suspenseful. Each poem pulls us farther—irresistibly—into the speaker’s rural childhood, through the trauma of molestation, and into the complexities of adulthood. I followed eagerly,…
Review by Carla Panciera Samuel Taylor Coleridge long ago advised readers that, to fully appreciate the magical, the mysterious, the outlandish, we need to suspend our disbelief. That is solid advice for sitting down with Jennifer Fliss’s collection, As…