February 2018

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

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.