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