Celebrating Ten Years of Literary Mama: Christina Marie Speed

October 2013 marked Literary Mama’s ten year anniversary! On Wednesdays for the next few months we’ll celebrate this milestone with editors and columnists, both past and present. They’ll share what being a part of Literary Mama has meant to them, what they hope for the future of the magazine, and how Literary Mama has shaped their writing, their mothering, and their lives.

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Christina Marie Speed- Literary Reflections Editor

Literary MAMA

(on ten years)

Motherhood nested, the

experience turning a woman inside

out

seeking, reaching

isolated, and yet sustained

sweeping words and crumbs into

wisps, threads, nourishment

infancy sheds to toddlerhood

as necessary words graduated from

journal to printed page

one click led

to Literary Mama

blushing for want of the bright veneer

cast from motherhood, making

M-otherhood

stand in eternal, thundering sense

one click led

to the intersection of writing and

the rest of my

dinnersdiaperslistsbathssighslaundrylovewritingmaybesleeping

dislocated, centered

in self and

community as

Literary MAMA