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MER Magazine is a quarterly publication founded in 2018 with a mission to provide high-quality nutrition education, research and advocacy information to healthcare professionals. It covers the latest developments in the field of medical nutrition therapy.
Mom Egg Review
3d ago
Review by Laura Dennis
The expression “mom in space,” might bring to mind a woman suffering from “mom brain,” COVID brain fog, or some combination thereof. The cover of Lisa Ampleman’s third full-length poetry collection, however, indicates we are talking about actual space, as in outer space, an impression confirmed by the opening epigraph from Diane Ackerman’s space-opera, The Planets.
That is not to say that other notions of space are absent from Mom in Space. Quite the contrary: it appears in myriad forms, as do varying takes on motherhood, rendering “mom in space” a highly polysemi ..read more
Mom Egg Review
2w ago
Submissions on Medical Motherhood MER Online folio open 7/15-8/5
For an MER Online folio themed “Medical Motherhood” guest edited by Sarah Dalton, MER seeks poems, fiction, and prose centered on the experiences of mothers and parents of children with disabilities and/or children with complex medical needs.
***Submit flash prose or up to 3 poems; hybrid works are welcome, however the submission’s total word count should not exceed 1000 words
Submissions open July 15 and close August 5 EDT.
Simultaneous submissions okay; unpublished work only please.
The link for submissions below will be ..read more
Mom Egg Review
2w ago
Review by Carla Panciera
Although Take Me With You Next Time is Janis Hubschman’s debut collection, the author is no stranger to the literary world. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals and have garnered prizes from the Bellingham Review and Glimmer Train. These are stories about women, most of whom are established in careers and relationships. In fact, they are firmly in the midst of their complicated lives.
One such complication involves the men they married: Their husbands are recovering from or succumbing to brain tumors, cancer, dementia, addiction. One has been unfaithfu ..read more
Mom Egg Review
3w ago
Review by W.J. Herbert Renunciation and Embrace in Maurya Simon’s La Sirena
The mystical Pacific coupled with the saga of a young girl’s coming-of-age animate La Sirena, a novella in verse by the poet Maurya Simon. The collection, a finalist for the 2023 Vern Rutsala Prize, marries auto-fictional elements with traditional motifs to create a modern riff on a classic 19th century tale. A vibrant contribution to feminist re-castings of myth and fairytale, poems in Simon’s retelling of “The Little Mermaid” employ multiple contemporary voices, but her heroine, richly-textured and magical, is ..read more
Mom Egg Review
3w ago
Review by Anna Rollins
Refraction: a review of Cat Pleska’s My Life in Water
Cat Pleska’s gorgeous memoir, My Life in Water (Uncollected Press, 2024), begins with a near drowning: her own, at 6 months of age. Her teenage babysitter Norma is not neglectful. Her mistake is a momentary lapse: she steps away from the tub, just briefly, to grab a towel to wrap and warm the freshly bathed baby.
In the essay entitled, “Wash Me Clean,” the author observes her own past trauma as third-person spectator: “there, completely underwater, lay the baby, staring wide-eyed up at the ceiling. No bu ..read more
Mom Egg Review
3w ago
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger
Dorinda Wegener’s debut poetry collection, Four Fields, is at once brave and vulnerable. She exposes all aspects of parent/child relationships, with the speaker’s mother, then father, in her richly written poetry. Although approachable, these poems require time to parse and readers may benefit from multiple readings to experience the book completely. Still, Wegener’s words warrant wallowing in for some time.
Divided into four parts, there is a metaphor centered in agriculture. Section I focuses on the mother figure, and the relationship between this mother ..read more
Mom Egg Review
3w ago
Review by Meghan Sterling Contending with Ghosts: The Tapestry of Place and Loss in Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter
A few months ago, a fellow Maine poet reached out to me to ask if I would be willing to read her latest collection, Certain Shelter, thinking my residence in her hometown might be of interest. She was right—reviewing a collection that takes place in the town I now call home was an interesting read. But there was more here than connection to place. I read Abbie Kiefer’s manuscript with recognition and urgency, exploring each poem hungrily. Like Kiefer, I am a middle-aged mot ..read more
Mom Egg Review
3w ago
Review by Sharon Tracey
Canticle for Remnant Days is Jane C. Miller’s first full-length poetry collection and she has compressed a lifetime within its pages. The poems are a measuring, a looking back and then forward, marking the days, the longing and joy; where loves goes, where it’s raised. Childhood, marriage, children, love, and loss. The self ever changing.
The book, divided into four sections of roughly equal length, evoke the seasons and rhythms of change. Many poems are tinged with color and there’s the sensation of a light touch, memory as brushstroke.
Time is a star subject an ..read more
Mom Egg Review
3w ago
MER Open for Submissions for MER Vol. 23 Print Journal and MER Online Quarterly
MER – Mom Egg Review is open for submissions.
4/24 – 5/1 Free Early Bird Submissions (until we reach our Submittable limit)
4/24 – 7/15 Regular Submissions ($3)
Submit 3 poems or up to 1000 words of fiction or nonfiction. This is an un-themed issue, so any work focused on some aspect of motherhood, mothering, or mothers is welcome.
View our guidelines and submit here: https://themomegg.submittable.com/submit
We can’t wait to read your best work!
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Mom Egg Review
3w ago
Jacquelyn Grant Brown For Black Mothers Who Can’t Consider Sleep Cuz the World
Still Ain’t Safe Enuf
Her son makes it
home +++safely
after the late shift
only to find her there +++again,
twisted deep
into the contour
her body has carved permanently
into the right corner
cushion of the couch
from a ritual of waiting
up for him. Before
the bright orange of morning
can come calling on her
dusky lights from the den’s
TV dance over
the tiniest creases
in her face, telling details
of an angst-filled and laborious
life. She wars with
her eyelids every late night
until he arrives,
slides the re ..read more