Reviews

A poetry collection of substance and strength, exploring the fissures that complicate our being and keep us from each other and from God.

Class explores how the author earned her degree as a single mom navigating school, work, and parenting while living in poverty.

Caring for chickens gives this narrator plenty of time to think about her life and what could have been.

Claudia Putnam examines grief, both general and specific, thirty years after the death of her son.

Just as elements of nature shape the poems, examinations of fertility shape the artist-mother, a central figure in the collection.

The book expertly carries the weight of its dual subtitle, meeting at the intersection of race and sexuality.

Many mamas will relate to the pressures of getting child-rearing right and even the poignancy of concern about getting children to the end of each day alive.

Are momfluencers giving us unrealistic expectations, or showing us how to claim ownership of our work and voices?

The narrator in Naming the Ghost must decide if the ghost is the loss of a parent or the loss of who she was before motherhood.

Reading American Honey reminded this writer of how much common ground we mothers share.

Who gets to tell the story when a marriage falls apart?