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March 2016

Neil Thomas

From the Editor: March/April 2020

Welcome to the March/April issue of Literary Mama!

From the Editor | March/April 2020 | By Amanda Jaros


On a Failed Second Adoption

I am spatched flat, / leeched and rasped / by the shape life now / will never take.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Patrice Claeys


The Fall

She is a wisp / of skin over hollow bones, / a ribcage like harp strings / holding her wild-beating heart, / scapulae jutting like vestigial wings, / fingers and…

Poetry | March 2020 | By Morrow Dowdle


Little Foxes

But listen to me, going on. / It’s just that / the less you understand, / the more I want to tell you, / before you’re all gone.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Elaine Fowler Palencia


How to Explain Death to Your Daughter

Teach her what to do when she loses you. / Don’t say Heaven. You don’t believe it, / neither will she. Say anything but sleep.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Kate Kearns


Holy Work

You believe in fairies / and leprechauns. / You believe birds / can fly to space.

Poetry | March 2020 | By Mandy Henderly


A Review of The Hard Tomorrow

The Hard Tomorrow, a stunningly detailed black-and-white graphic novel, ponders over the “readiness” for parenthood. The answer is a complicated blend of politics and naïve belief, but it emerges in…

Reviews | March 2020 | By DW McKinney


A Review of Counting by Sevens

Ann E. Wallace’s debut collection of poems,Counting by Sevens, is, at first glance, about the wounds we all bear as humans. Some of these wounds are borne publicly, such as…

Reviews | March 2020 | By Juli Anna Herndon


Birmingham Museum Trust

Under Glass

My mother didn’t meet the son I named Daniel until she was 72. She was living in the nursing home in Maine, and Jeff, 23, was visiting from California for…

Creative Nonfiction | March 2020 | By Eileen Drennen


Milada Vigerova

Test Results

The double-helix structure of DNA allows for replication, but yours has unwound, a single spiral staircase tapering off into a singular void. Rick refuses to uncouple, says having a genetic…

Fiction | March 2020 | By Amy Lyons


A Conversation with Sarah Blake

“The judgment one gets as a mother—I find that much harder to take than the judgment I get as an author. Maybe because I’ve had a longer time as an…

Profiles | March 2020 | By Camille-Yvette Welsch


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