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May/June 2021

As I read the pieces in this issue of Literary Mama, I’m reminded that the only guarantee in life is change: One mother questions her career choice. A mother contemplates her own death. Yet another navigates her shifting relationship with her adult son. As mothers, we must learn to embrace each moment, while also letting go of our children at every turn.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • Let Me Tell You

    By Amy Gallo Ryan

  • Pathways of Ripples

    By Seema Reza

  • Waiting, to Shine Again

    By Jane Gordon Julien

  • You Won’t Remember Me

    By Bethany Jarmul

Fiction

  • Mommy, Daddy, Peek-a-boo! A Review by Emiline Schwartz

    By Elisha Emerson

  • My Mother, Before Me

    By Rita Ariyoshi

  • The Pump Room

    By Lorren Lemmons

Literary Reflections

  • Confronting Literary Theory: Ice Princesses and Don Quixote

    By Annette Lucksinger

Poetry

  • Postpartum

    By Lisa Marie Oliver

  • Legacy

    By Shelia Cooper

  • Ritual

    By Mary Beth Hines

  • Annual

    By Rachel Richardson

  • Miscarriage

    By Kim Michalak

  • Keeping House

    By Amy Ratto Parks

  • Book of Stingers / Meditation on Lacing My Daughter’s Ice Skates

    By Joan Kwon Glass

  • “Why she not need love, Mommy?”

    By Alexa Doran

Profiles

  • A Conversation with Michelle Adams

    By Katie Whittington

  • A Conversation with Sari Fordham

    By Amanda Fields

  • A Conversation with Zibby Owens

    By Christina Consolino

Reviews

  • A Review of Mother Mother

    By Autumn Purdy

  • A Review of Thread, Form, and Other Enclosures

    By Crystal Condakes Karlberg

  • A Review of Throwing It All Away: A Son’s Suicide and a Mother’s Search for Hope

    By Janet Irvin

  • A Review of World of Wonders

    By Andrea Lani

  • A Review of You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

    By Shanta Lee Gander

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