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 MERreviews@gmail.com
Review by Judith Swan – When the 19th century’s Anna Laetitia Barbauld addressed the less-than-classical theme of motherhood, the terms “sentiment”…
Review by Issa M. Lewis – A first-time expectant mother looks for a roadmap as she prepares for…
Review by Libby Maxey – I’m rather new to the world of small fiction (also known as flash fiction,…
Review by Sarah W. Bartlett – Amy Dryansky’s newest poetry collection, Grass Whistle, was awarded the Massachusetts Book Award for poetry. While…
Review by RZ Wiggins – Mothers are simple, complex, opaque, vivid, loving, distant, devoted, and neglectful, all in a lifetime.…
Review by Barbara Harroun – Samantha Duncan’s intimate, inventive, and gloriously imaginative chapbook-length poem The Birth Creatures examines and gives new eyes…
Review by Kerry Neville – Buffy the Vampire Slayer is deeply ingrained in both popular and academic culture (spin-offs, references,…
Review by Jennifer Martelli – From the opening title poem where we are told, “Never mind what your mother says”…
Review by Christina Mock – Marianne Smith Johnson’s collection Tender Collisions is a rollercoaster of the loss, grief, joy, and love…
Review by Ann Fisher-Wirth – Wisdom, wit, and compassion characterize Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor’s first book of poems, Imperfect Tense. A Professor of…
Review by Bunny Goodjohn – His office is covered floor to ceiling / in photos of infants’ faces / stuck…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg – No one wants to talk about the sick child. Corrugated sadness, apologies baited with fear…
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 MERreviews@gmail.com