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…
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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…
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…
Down Here We Come Up, a novel by Sara Johnson Allen Review by Jane Ward In Down Here We Come Up, 2022 winner of the Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize, debut novelist Sara Johnson Allen propels us into the…
Hands Are Necessary When You’re Trying To Reshape The World: Reflections On Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe Review by Crystal Condakes Karlberg Ama Codjoe is full of questions in, Bluest Nude, her second poetry collection, after Blood of the…