Review by Annamaria Formichella After twenty years of publishing Literary Mama, a publication dedicated to writing for and by mothers, current and past staff members created a space to share their own stories in Labor of Love: A Literary…
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MER Bookshelf – June 2024 Staff Picks – new books of fiction, memoir, and poetry. –Compiled by Melissa Joplin Higley. Alison Stone, Informed, NYQ Books, May 2024, poetry Pulling traditional forms into the 21st century, Alison Stone uses…
Review by Sharon Tracey Lady Wing Shot, the third prize-winning poetry collection by Sara Moore Wagner, takes us deep inside the life and times of sharpshooter Annie Oakley, a woman whose fame and legend has outlived and somewhat eclipsed…
In “The Mother Artist,” Author Catherine Ricketts Imagines A World Shaped By Care Review by Kate Lewis The central question in author Catherine Ricketts’ new work of non-fiction, The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity, comes early…
Review by Claire Raymond Franco-American poet Jeri Theriault’s Self-Portrait as Homestead envisions the marks that our histories leave on our bodies and on the houses that hold our bodies as we pass through them, bringing together domestic space and…
Review by Celia Jeffries The phone that doesn’t ring in this memoir is the one that should be connecting Lara Lillibridge to her father. The father who moved to Alaska when she was four, forcing her to chase after…
Review by Melissa Ridley Elmes Sherre Vernon’s work has appeared in over 100 venues including The Chestnut Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and Westchester Review. Following her 2006 hybrid postmodern novella Green Ink Wings, which was the winning manuscript of…
New fiction, both novels and short stories, memoir, and poetry. Eileen Vorbach Collins, Love in the Archives, Apprentice House 11/23, nonfiction (suicide). Eileen Vorbach Collins’s Love in the Archives, a Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss, is a collection…
A Literary Reflection by Wendy BooydeGraaff on Kiss the Ground, a Netflix Documentary and Soil: The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy I began watching Kiss the Ground with my spouse, with whom I’ve gardened the…
Seeing Our Children in Art: on “The Stone Boat” in Kelly McMasters’s The Leaving Season A Literary Reflection by Anna Rollins Recently, I archived photos of my children’s faces from my public social media accounts. I’d always given thought to…