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January 2016

Stung

”Well, clearly I’m not needed here, ” I said to Marc, shoving on my shoes. I felt like my own child’s temporary babysitter, just waiting for the real parent to…

The Wild Things | June 2015 | By Beth Malone


Papas and Their Literary Daughters: A Review of Every Father’s Daughter: Twenty-four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

McMullan notes that when she couldn’t read or write following her father’s death, she realized that what she needed was a collection of essays written by women about their fathers.…

Reviews | June 2015 | By Jenn McKee


One Father’s Complicated Joy: A Review of Jon Pineda’s Little Anodynes

The poems here consider fatherhood and the power of memory to ignite joy and pain at once. For many parents, this is a powerful truism, that our experiences run through…

Reviews | June 2015 | By Gabriel Welsch


Madwoman in Love with the Universe: A Review of Phenomenal

Henion’s journey begins when she gives birth to her son, Archer, and enters a phase of arduous disruption, lack of sleep and the parenting blasé that follows, complete with no-cry…

Reviews | June 2015 | By Mo Duffy Cobb


Another Birthday

In the end, I walked away after arranging a quick service, realizing that in the more than 20 years I’d known my father, I had never taken the time to…

Creative Nonfiction | June 2015 | By Amber Cook


A Conversation with BlogHer’s Deputy Editor Rita Arens

As deputy editor, Rita Arens is a regular featured speaker at BlogHer’s annual conferences, the world’s largest conferences for women in social media. She recently spoke with Lisa Lynne Lewis…

Profiles | June 2015 | By Lisa L. Lewis


Heroes on the Ceiling

Gazing at the ceiling, Clancy lost himself in the trails and shadows of his mind and discovered the process of thought without thinking.

Fiction | June 2015 | By Leslie Muzingo


Imperfect Place

Sweetie. My eyes well up with tears. The word had rolled off of her tongue so easily, as if these past six months never existed. The last time she called…

Fiction | June 2015 | By Mina Mitchell


Bruises

Touch seems to offend her; she screams and writhes when I brush her thick, curly hair, crying in what sounds like pain and forcing me to wrestle with her on…

Creative Nonfiction | June 2015 | By Gretchen Brown Wright


Agent

We just made a child/ he said to the dark. // I was merely aiming/ for the place where self is lost . . .

Poetry | June 2015 | By Lee Gulyas


Blooms

happiness matters, like breakfast / on the table.

Poetry | June 2015 | By Cheryl Anne Latuner


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