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May/June 2022

The essays, stories, and poems in this month’s issue, as well as the authors and books featured in profiles and reviews, demonstrate how all-consuming motherhood is and delve into those emotional extremes: the fierce love, the exhaustion, the tenderness, the boredom. It’s important to tell these stories that encompass the full range of the motherhood experience, to tell our truths as women and mothers. To let the world know our voices won’t be silenced.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • This Particular Solitude

    By Jessica Yen

  • Breathing Easy

    By Anna Rollins

  • Thin Air and Sticks

    By Amanda Jaros

Fiction

  • All the Pieces

    By Kristin Walrod

  • Aria

    By Rachel Federman

Literary Reflections

  • Mama Dreams, Daughter Dreams

    By Crystal Rowe

Poetry

  • Mother’s Day

    By Julianne DiNenna

  • Stillbirth Stories

    By Courtney Harler

  • Amy Winehouse is Dead

    By Michelle Oppenheimer

  • Spelling Homework

    By Jennifer R. Edwards

  • To Unmake

    By Robyn Groth

  • Child Craft, Vol. 1

    By Theresa Burns

  • Slow Release

    By Deborah Leipziger

  • Sight Reading

    By Donna Spruijt-Metz

  • Breathe

    By Nick Edinger

Profiles

  • On the Necessity of Pain, Anger, and Laundry: A Conversation with Jessamine Chan

    By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

  • Mothering After Addiction: A Conversation with Cindy House

    By Jennie Burke

  • Taking the Long View: A Conversation with Laurie Frankel

    By Kelsey Madges

  • On Book Coaching: A Conversation with Jennie Nash

    By Michelle Glogovac

Reviews

  • We Get to Be Everything: Life with Motherhood in Slowly/Suddenly

    By Nina Smilow

  • Standing Up for Mothers: A Review of Knocked Down: A High Risk Memoir

    By Mikhal Weiner

  • Impossible Standards, Unspeakable Goals: A Review of The School for Good Mothers

    By Cindy DiTiberio

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