March/April 2023

Creative Nonfiction

• The Blue Duffel Bag: A Journey from Beirut to America

  By Della Cassia

Fiction

• Birdless Dawn

  By Noriko Nakada

• The Cottage

  By Barbara Summers

• There Are Always Hugs

  By Katia Wish

Literary Reflections

• Inflection Point: The Birth of a Mother Writer

  By Andrea Lani

• Mantras for Motherhood and Revision

  By Amanda Lewan

Poetry

• At My Son’s Tennis Lesson

  By Julie Ebin

• Dahlia Lament

  By Laurie Kuntz

• Silhouette Matins

  By Steph Sundermann-Zinger

• Impractical Gifts

  By Luca Salerno

• Two Births

  By Evelyn Digirolamo

• Port of Call

  By Kate Falvey

• The Weight of You

  By Gail Snyder

• Equation 65

  By Karen Arnold

• Non sequitur as metaphor

  By Patty Ware

Profiles

• Good Moms Know Themselves: A Conversation with Zibby Owens

  By Tess Clarkson

• Home Isn’t a Place: A Conversation with Brenda Janowitz

  By Jennie Wexler

• Queer Parenthood and Activism: A Conversation with Dr. Francesca Royster

  By Victoria Clayton

• The Many Selves: A Conversation with Cinelle Barnes

  By Jennie Burke

• The Mother of MomCom: A Conversation with Lisa Roe

  By Holly Rizzuto Palker

Reviews

• Balancing Art and Babies: A Review of The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

  By Rhonda Havig

• Facets of a Mother’s Life: A Review of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood

  By Crystal Rowe

• How to Scream on the Outside: A Review of Screaming on the Inside: On the Unsustainability of American Motherhood

  By Brianna Avenia-Tapper