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Ingredients of Identity: A Review of Receipt: Poems

Karen Leona Anderson’s forthcoming poetry collection is a groundbreaking repurposing of—and response to—the overlooked scraps of daily life. In this book, Anderson illuminates images that I myself normally sweep aside:…

Reviews | February 2016 | By Chelsey Burden


A Profile of Ama Ata Aidoo

The bold storytelling and authentic voice of Ghana’s Ama Ata Aidoo burst on the literary scene in the 1960s, blazing trails for future female writers out of Africa. Over the…

Profiles | February 2016 | By Suzanne Kamata


A Conversation with Alison Pick

Acclaimed Canadian poet and novelist Alison Pick found herself penning a memoir after research for another project uncovered a family secret that caused her to rethink her spiritual identity.

Profiles | February 2016 | By Marianne Lonsdale


A Good Day

Are you aware outside the sun yawns? These minutes of dawn anticipate the world: breakfast, the shoes, transport, money— all things linear before noon.

Poetry | February 2016 | By Heather Taylor Johnson


Cold Coffee

Her cup sits there marooned on the counter, the overpopulated desk, the afterthought of a window ledge. Aroma waning, steam dissolved, a price for the golden offering of children.

Poetry | February 2016 | By Ashleigh Brown


From the Editor, February 2016

Welcome to the February issue of Literary Mama! There’s a lot to love among this selection of rich and diverse pieces, from both emerging and established writers.

From the Editor | February 2016 | By Maria Scala


Woman’s Work

The tractor and hay baler are stuck and broken, leaving me with blade and hot afternoon sun, swinging the scythe back and forth through air and tall grass, clearing a…

Poetry | February 2016 | By Danèlle Lejeune


Yard Duty

not stars— but more planetary—orbiting out across wide swaths of blacktop, each sweat-glittered body

Poetry | February 2016 | By Heather Angier


Rebellion

The three together a composition so incredibly wholesome, I found myself wondering if they were all born by me, and if so, how had I managed such a feat. In…

Fiction | February 2016 | By Ama Ata Aidoo


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The Woods

There is nothing but the shuffling of the children still near me, the ones who still feel the primal need for the proximity and guidance I can offer. They’ll follow…

Creative Nonfiction | February 2016 | By Kristy Ramirez


Ethan and the Question of Death

I have lived so long with my anxiety that I forget that it’s not normal to freeze in the middle of what you’re doing and cry no, no, no, no,…

Creative Nonfiction | February 2016 | By Heather Osterman-Davis


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