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May 2018

Dragonfly Daughter

my mandibles as serrated as my remarks / about the life she chose—she flies backwards.

Poetry | May 2020 | By Trish Hopkinson


Summer Afternoon

feeling married and enclosed / as rain flecks our windows, // lashing the car, the road, the grasses, / the bright and hot transformed

Poetry | May 2020 | By Kristen Staby Rembold


Motherworld

For now, we are returned to nature: he is wanted, he wants not.

Poetry | May 2020 | By Julia Smuts Louw


Second Harvest

let your bare toes take root everywhere they will / let the wind shake loose your laughter

Poetry | May 2020 | By Rene Simon


Someone Else’s Ovaries

the left pea pod is asleep / they are craters on the dead / surface of the moon / or maybe they are tiny / mouths of goldfish

Poetry | May 2020 | By Jennifer Ronsman


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My Mother’s Last Election

If politics divides many families, it was actually a sweet spot for my mother and me, the one place where our instincts and ideologies were almost totally aligned. So I…

Creative Nonfiction | May 2020 | By Johanna Wald


A Conversation with Karen Raney

I think writers, actors and musicians—all artists in fact—are drawn to elemental themes of life and death, childhood and parenthood, and they find ways to place themselves both inside and…

Profiles | May 2020 | By Susan Bruns Rowe


A Review of All the Water in the World

Karen Raney’s debut novel All the Water in the World is a candid illustration of the bond between a mother and a daughter faced with an ugly disease and newly…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Rhonda Havig


A Review of The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself

I read The Beginning of Everything during the early weeks of the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, and it was interesting to note the parallels between the period…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Andrea Lani


A Conversation with Lisa Heffernan

“It’s headline grabbing to say that parents are too involved with their children or to mention helicopter parenting over and over—most parents are not. Data shows that kids who remain…

Profiles | May 2020 | By Marianne Lonsdale


A Review of Grown and Flown

For parents of high school students and college students, this book might become a bible of sorts. I know for myself with three kids currently in this age category, I…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Denise Guibord


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