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November 2017

Michelle GD, michellegd.com, michellegd@comcast.net

From the Editor, October 2015

Welcome to the October/Desiring Motherhood issue of Literary Mama! This month, many of our writers share stories about whether to have children or not, adoption, infertility, miscarriage, and child loss.…

From the Editor | October 2015 | By Maria Scala


Cosmic Longing and Family Secrets: A Review of Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders

Other reviews have mentioned a Gatsby-esque quality to Wonders, citing certain Roaring Twenties-style parties and a gangster figure not unlike Meyer Wolfsheim. I recognized these as well, but the similarities…

Reviews | October 2015 | By Stephanie Vanderslice


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A Conversation with Megan Mayhew Bergman

I started off as a secret writer: I thought of myself as a writer and yet I was too scared to write. It was a funny disconnect. For me it’s…

Profiles | October 2015 | By Lisa L. Lewis


Two Olives, Please

Mommy takes a long swig of cocktail, always a chance for blurt, a revelation somehow of something we never wanted.

Poetry | October 2015 | By Karen Corinne Herceg


Meryl Carver-Allmond, mcarverallmond@gmail.com, www.mybitofearth.net

Bernadette and Me

Mayer, too, suffered from angst. But what’s refreshing, even radical, for twenty-first century mothers who have been pitted against each other and against every false ideal of motherhood, is this:…

Essays, Literary Reflections | October 2015 | By Natalie Singer-Velush


Baby at My Breast—The Path to a Book

I’m trying to open a window into my soul, to show how it feels to know that this activity of nursing my daughter is also an activity of becoming more…

Essays, Literary Reflections | October 2015 | By Cheryl Anne Latuner


Essential Reading: Desiring Motherhood

Whether you seek a book that depicts a fervent desire for motherhood or an ambivalent approach, our colleagues have you covered this month with an exploration of our annual October…

Essential Reading, Literary Reflections | October 2015 | By Justine Uhlenbrock


Mothering the Unknown: A Poetry Roundup Review

So often in motherhood we are faced with mysteries so much larger than our capacity to understand, and yet we try to explain these mysteries to our children as best…

Reviews | October 2015 | By Farah Marklevits


Twice Buried

Our mother never had you. Still wanting, she had another and another and another.

Poetry | October 2015 | By Suzanne Farrell Smith


a state incompatible with life

you are flat I didn’t expect paper thin a pulsing strawberry at Christmas touch pads forming your fingertips

Poetry | October 2015 | By Suzanne Farrell Smith


The Game of Life

I used to count those babies like I could control How I played the Game of Life I would stick one, two, three, however many Blue or pink plastic figures…

Poetry | October 2015 | By Amanda Linsmeier


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