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The Lost City of Pompeii, with Mount Vesuvius in the background - Photo by D Jones via Unsplash

Eruptions

My unease grows; have I miscalculated the risks of this Italy assignment? I’d worried about being far from my daughter, but I’d not feared the impacts on my pregnancy.

Creative Nonfiction | September/October 2023 | By Denise Dilanni


Clouds - Photo by Dan Freeman via Unsplash

Summer Rain Enter

She knows his face his arms his eyes / So well she almost forgives herself

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Tamra Carraher


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reflection

and she stands in front of the mirror again, repeating

Poetry | September/October 2023 | By Amie Souza Reilly


Bluebells - Photo by Annie Spratt via Unsplash

Drowning in the Fog

I devour memoirs about maternal mental health, joining mother after mother on her rapid descent into madness and her long climb back out.

Creative Nonfiction | July/August 2023 | By Laura Spencer


Cardboard box - Photo by Kelli McClintock via Unsplash

A Time to Build

Will my son remember, ten years from now, that I set everything aside to work on that little room with him? Will this be one of the memories he holds dear?

Creative Nonfiction | July/August 2023 | By Elena Garfield


Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance cover

Motherhood as Black, Queer World-Building: A Review of Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Black Motherhood and Black Resistance

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

Reviews | July/August 2023 | By Dara Mathis


Golden grass - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

You thought you’d show them

After fear there are soft resting places

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Ella Kurz


Trees - Photo by Amanda Mocci via Unspalsh

Single Moms Have No Time for Birdwatching: Ask Me How I Know

you must be a parent, barely / escaping ruin. Are you hurt, / little wife?

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Laurie Klein


Water - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

Selkie Mother

Be breath and water, be sleek, / be song.

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Meg Yardley


Sunrise - Photo by OC Gonzalez via Unsplash

Rivers of Mitochondria

in all her sepia glory she’d know her lost tongue, / where her people came from, her way back home

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Yeva Johnson


Trust That You Are Always Writing: A Conversation with Poet and Muse Tania Pryputniewicz

“Be kind to yourself and trust that you are always writing. Even all the hours your pencil never touches the page while you care for your children.”

Profiles | July/August 2023 | By Rebecca Jane


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