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May/June 2023

It’s mid-May, a time that feels like life is set to fast-forward, the momentum toward school’s end unavoidable. Summer is coming and, for many, carefully crafted schedules and guaranteed childcare will evaporate like hot air over pavement. I both dread and look forward to the summer months. I’m grateful to no longer be packing lunches and rushing out the door each morning, but I also struggle with the constantly changing schedule, with different camp pickup and drop-off times, and then vacations that are fun but require planning and packing and a disruption to routine. 

Whether your children are in the other room, or miles away from you, I hope you can find a quiet place to sit down and immerse yourself in the words and musings of your fellow mothers. It is always such a joy to review each issue before we publish, and marvel at how Literary Mama editors across time zones select and polish such beautiful work.

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Profiles

Prose Like a Poet and Permission Slips: A Conversation with Maggie Smith

“Whenever I sit down to work on a piece of writing, I ask, what is the best form for this content? What is the container and why?”

By Cindy DiTiberio

Creative Nonfiction

How to Have a Miscarriage

You thought you would be asleep, but here you are in the surgical suite, awake and alarmingly lucid, your husband beside you in full-body scrubs and a hairnet.

By Rae Katz

Current Issue Highlights

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    Poetry

    I Don’t Buy My Children Toy Guns

    By Amy Ralston Seife

  • Reviews

    Clicking Our Way to Maternal Bliss: A Review of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

    By Nicole Graev Lipson

  • Ginko -- Photo by Olga Drach via Unsplash
    Fiction

    Ginkgo Biloba

    By Zsófia Czakó & Marietta Morry & Walter Burgess (Translators)

  • Poetry

    Motherspeak

    By Anna Abraham Gasaway

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