Kayla Jessop Notes on Hunger I. Prelude: What the Body Wants Every morning, I woke swallowed by nausea, a metallic taste sharpening its teeth on the hunger; my daughter turning quietly inside me, learning to float through the hunger.…
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Nicole Herbert Some Days Some days I can be the mother I want to be. Some days I can listen to an entire twenty-minute story about the video game level that was finally beat and ask the right questions.…
Review by Melanie McGehee In her poetry collection Material, Ana María Caballero excavates fear, yearning, and frustration from the ordinary material of family life. Children and husbands, bodies and books, household routines and memories bring a strange urgency…
Review by Connie Jordan Green Linda Parsons, native Tennessean, is an editor and a prolific writer of poetry, essays, and plays. To come upon a volume of Parsons’ work is to know one is in for a pleasant, but…
Tamara J. Madison Awkward Agency/Salient Survival Me: “Good morning, I am traveling to Auburn, New York. I will be reading poems from our family tree in Ms. Harriet Tubman’s church at 5:00 pm this evening in a celebration called…
Review by Laura Dennis The expression “mom in space,” might bring to mind a woman suffering from “mom brain,” COVID brain fog, or some combination thereof. The cover of Lisa Ampleman’s third full-length poetry collection, however, indicates we are…
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