The myth of you eddiesat your arrival.If it’s trueyou could never drownno matter the riptideswirl of ocean or river.No nagging fearof the lake’s silent summer edge. But it’s winterwhen you’re born.A polar vortex hoversover the state and stays.The door knobs insidefuzz over with ice. The skyclear and too coldto draw water to itself. In another […]
I watch you now, my son, and it feels as though time is playing tricks on me. You are the baby I rocked to sleep and the boy who pulls away from my touch, eager to prove his independence. How strange it is that you can embody both—the child I knew and the one I’m […]
When I was younger, a stubborn fifth-grader schooler, I would dread The RedPen. The Red Pen would come out on every essay I wrote for school, every short story Iconjured, and every poem I playfully typed up. After marking my paper with long swathsof red ballpoint gel, my mom would smile at me earnestly and […]
Welcome to our Calls for Submissions page. Here, we’ll feature new publication opportunities for all our Mama readers. Look for updated posts each month. If there is a ❤️ next to a call, that means the magazine or press is specifically looking for mother writers. We ❤️ all our Mamas! Literary Mama is always open […]
Welcome to Craft Talks. In this bi-monthly post, we’ll have a mini-interview with our own editors about craft, what they look for in submissions, and all things writing. Today, I talked with Andrea Lani, Senior Editor and Literary Reflections Editor. She told me about the delight of being an LM editor, Terry Tempest Williams, and […]