MER February Bookshelf Lots of intriguing new and recent books, many from our contributors. Take a look! Morgan Baker Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Goodbyes (Ten16Press, May 2023; memoir) is about reinventing yourself, learning how to handle loss,…
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New and Coming Soon Sarah Gutowski, The Familiar. TRP: The University Press of SHSU January 2024. Poetry The Familiar is a narrative-in-poems about female existential crisis. It mimics the bizarre, darkly funny experience of midlife by making literal the…
New and Notable Lisa Grunberger, For the Future of Girls. Kelsay Books 2023. Poetry. For the Future of Girls is at once family album, inventory of memories, a reckoning with time, and a plea for love to last. Lisa Grunberger’s…
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…
Recent Releases in Poetry and Memoir Mary Buchinger Bodwell, Navigating the Reach. Salmon Poetry, 2023 “How does one learn / to navigate the reach / its treacherous rocks?” asks Mary Buchinger in the title poem of her new collection. The “reach” she…
New Poetry Books Thinking of completing Nicole Sealey’s Poetry Challenge (read one poetry book each day for the month of August)? Check out some of these new releases! Nicelle Davis, The Language of Fractions. Moon Tide Press 2023. Nicelle…
New Fiction and Non-Fiction (And an Anthology) On Our Radar Anthology Rachel Neve-Midbar and Jennifer Saunders, Eds., Stained: An Anthology of Writing About Menstruation. Querencia Press 2023. “The writers in Stained offer their menarche stories, sometimes magical, sometimes…
New & Noted Poetry (Full-length) Jessica Bell, A Tide Should Be Able To Rise Despite Its Moon. Vine Leaves Press 2023. Inspired by the special bond between mother and child, Bell’s poems search for meaning in a world of misconception.…
Welcome to MER Bookshelf, a listing featuring noteworthy new and recent books by our contributors, community members, and the literary world at large that share a focus on motherhood and women’s lives. Selected 2022 Poetry Releases of Note Theresa…