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February 2018

From the Editor, January 2016

Welcome to the January issue of Literary Mama! There’s so much to explore on the pages of our magazine this month. Enjoy!

From the Editor | January 2016 | By Maria Scala


Honoring Your Core Self: A Review of Wild Mama

Accomplished travel essayist Carrie Visintainer has redefined motherhood for herself by equally embracing her desires for wanderlust and domesticity. In her memoir, Visintainer provides a moving, uninhibited recollection of her…

Reviews | January 2016 | By Berly Fields


Like a Compass into the Far Night: A Review of Broom

With epistolary poems written to her two young children and an array of formal enterprise (from ghazal to prose), these poems of joy and sorrow, exploration and discovery, deserve a…

Reviews | January 2016 | By Lois Marie Harrod


A Conversation with Jennifer Robson

I’d always had the ambition to write fiction, but something had always held me back—I think mainly I was afraid of failure. Only after watching a documentary on J.K. Rowling,…

Profiles | January 2016 | By Maria Scala


A Glimpse

I asked these questions, knowing there would be no reply. Benjamin’s inability to speak distresses me most whenever he’s sick. How can I help him fight pain or illness when…

Creative Nonfiction | January 2016 | By Joanne De Simone


What We Made

I am sucked into baseball every year. I tell myself that I’m not like the other parents, the ones schmoozing with the coaches, paying for expensive clinics and camps in…

Creative Nonfiction | January 2016 | By Bridgett Jensen


Alizabeth Rasmussen. alizabeth.rasmussen@gmail.com

Standstill

Rae looks down at her bulbous belly. She is nothing if not a record of time. For 34 weeks her body has been counting–adding hours as the baby has added…

Fiction | January 2016 | By Lisa Piazza


Essential Reading: New Beginnings

I have yet to get my Christmas tree out of the house, and the same goes for the Christmas cards my dutiful husband had made more than a month ago.…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | January 2016 | By Libby Maxey


My Daughter-Who-Doesn’t-Like-To-Read

Somehow, for all my best efforts, I wasn’t raising a daughter who loved to read. Nevertheless, I was deeply grateful she felt safe enough to speak her mind. Secure, she…

Essays, Literary Reflections | January 2016 | By Kathryn Streeter


Catie Atkinson, catieatkinson@hotmail.com, http://spiritysol.blogspot.com/

You Say You Want a Revolution?

I. Love. My. Job. I am one of those lucky people who can say, sincerely, that I’m doing what I came into this world to do. I would—and do—teach classes…

Essays, Literary Reflections | January 2016 | By Barbara Buckner Suarez


First Snow

I want the world to stay like this, fragile and new in the early morning: first snow on the silhouette of every tree, stars fading into the sun’s first light.

Poetry | January 2016 | By Julie Stotz-Ghosh


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