Mom Egg Review publishes reviews of recent books (including chapbooks) of poetry, fiction and creative prose, by mother writers, and of books focused on motherhood or women’s experiences and issues.
If you are interested in having your book reviewed, please visit Book Review Request for more info.
If you are interested in reviewing books for us, please check out our page of Books for Review and email us at [email protected]
Review by Barbara Ellen Sorensen A definitive theme in Margo Taft Stever’s new volume of poetry, Cracked Piano, is…
Review by Carole Mertz Maggie Nelson centered her Bluets around its “blue” theme and Inger Christensen around the alphabet. In…
Review by Lara Lillibridge “One word. One breathless syllable, as steady, as fragile, as a hinge. Try to say it…
Review by Barbara Lawhorn Two and a half years ago, I found myself questioning my identity in the face of…
Reviewed by Carole Mertz A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Manchester, and a nominee for…
Reviewed by Michelle Wilbert While reading Laura Grace Weldon’s latest collection of poetry, Blackbird, I found myself anchored to continuity…
Reviewed by Janet McCann Haibun is an unusual form, a short prose piece with one or more haiku attached or…
Reviewed by Christine Salvatore We know memory is a passport that never expires. —from “The Hurting Time” What if the…
Reviewed by Barbara Ellen Sorensen Visits and Other Passages by Carol Smallwood is a collection of poems, short essays, observations…
Reviewed by Sarah W. Bartlett Founder of Mothers Always Write, an online literary magazine about motherhood, Julianne Palumbo is no…
A Catalogue of Small Pains by Meghan L. Dowling Reviewed by Meghan O’Neill Packaged as a novel, Meghan L. Dowling’s…
Throwback Thursdays by Margie Shaheed Review by Mindy Kronenberg There is something particularly poignant and wistful about reading a posthumous…
Mom Egg Review publishes reviews of recent books (including chapbooks) of poetry, fiction and creative prose, by mother writers, and of books focused on motherhood or women’s experiences and issues. If you are interested in having your book reviewed, please visit Book Review Request for more info.
If you are interested in reviewing books for us, please email us at [email protected]