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Birthing the Mother Writer

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Planting: Sowing the Seeds of the Self in One’s Own Writing Room

This month Cassie Premo Steele invites you to submit a short story or creative non-fiction piece of 800-1200 words on the theme of claiming one’s own space as a mother…

Birthing the Mother Writer, Columns | April 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Wintering: Moving within the Self as a Way of Conceiving One’s Own Writing

This month Cassie Premo Steele chose two poems by readers on the themes of mothers and suicide. And yet not. There’s something deeper at play in these poems. As if…

Birthing the Mother Writer, Columns | March 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Wintering: Moving within the Self as a Way of Conceiving One’s Own Writing

Every mother has a winter season. We don’t talk about it much anymore. We hold up Sexton and Plath as counter-examples, we say, “Oh, how much has changed!” and we…

Birthing the Mother Writer, Columns | February 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Being a Natural Mother

Last month’s column invited readers to submit poems on “mothering differently.” Cassie Premo Steele shares two beautiful poems about our sometimes painfully complex mother-daughter relationships, as well as a discussion…

Birthing the Mother Writer, Columns | January 2013 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Being a Natural Mother

In my last two columns, we discussed the intricacies – personal, cultural, and historical – of desiring natural motherhood. This month, I’d like to shift our discussion from the subject…

Birthing the Mother Writer, Columns | December 2012 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to Desiring Natural Motherhood

In last month’s column Cassie Premo Steele invited readers to submit writing on the theme of Desiring Natural Motherhood. This essay by Jessica Ellis Laine brings to light two essential…

Birthing the Mother Writer | November 2012 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Desiring Natural Motherhood

My mother was a philosopher. My sister and I grew up with philosophy books all over the house and grad students stopping by. We had a tiny little television that…

Birthing the Mother Writer, Columns | October 2012 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to School for Mama

In last month’s column, Cassie Premo Steele asked readers to submit short stories about mothers and children in the setting of a school. Perfect for this time of the year,…

Birthing the Mother Writer | September 2012 | By Cassie Premo Steele


School for Mama

This month Cassie Premo Steele invites you to write a short story that takes place in a school or college and involves a mother and her child or teenager.

Birthing the Mother Writer | August 2012 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Reader Response to A Dozen Years

Last month’s “Birthing the Mother Writer” column asked readers to submit essays about mothering during a child’s adolescence. In this essay, Sarah Marxer writes about how, since she adopted a…

Birthing the Mother Writer | June 2012 | By Cassie Premo Steele


A Dozen Years

My daughter is twelve. Sometimes I wake at dawn, from a dream that she is gone, and my heart pounds for her. I remember being twelve. Getting so warm, chasing…

Birthing the Mother Writer | May 2012 | By Cassie Premo Steele


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