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The Mom Egg
Throughout our lives, we are on the giving and receiving end of lessons; some simple, others complex; some explicit, many, more veiled. We're taught first by mother, and father, later by teachers, peers, loves, institutions. We teach our children, and they teach us, (as Crosby Stills & Nash noted). These lessons can be inspiring and empowering or limiting and inhibiting ... In this Mom Egg, all the lessons above, and more; lessons learned and taught--funny, frightening, tragic; lessons to live by, and those better ignored. Maybe one or two for you. --Marjorie Tesser, Editor, The Mom Egg.
The Mom Egg
The Mom Egg, an annual literary journal, publishes sharp, inventive fiction, creative prose, and poetry by mothers about everything and by everyone about mothers and motherhood. In this issue The Mom Egg explores the nuances of Mother Tongue. Mothers are emissaries and guardians of language. A mother murmurs to her infant son. Mother's words hold power to hurt or heal. A new immigrant struggles to learn English; later generations, to cling to remnants of language and culture. Mother Tongue speaks out. Mother Tongue has been silenced-and freed. Mother Tongue names. Mother Tongue tastes and plays. A must-read for mothers and lovers of language, this collection will challenge, delight and inspire. "The Mom Egg is all about motherhood. It's about the bodies and minds of the women who do this gorgeous, messy thing, and I loved reading every page of it." Renee Beauregard Lute, The Review Review "...fine creative work like this belongs in the larger conversations about private life and women's issues..." Tanya Angell Allen, New Pages
The Important Thing Is... Card Game
Phrases and words taken from a suggestion box at the Bowery Poetry Club and printed on 11 sheets. They are to be cut-up, shuffled and re-assembled as poems or sayings in game fashion.
Travellin Mama Mothers, Mothering and Travel
“Don’t women with children travel?” Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael enquire, in their book A Mother’s World: Journeys of the Heart (1998), when discovering the absence of portrayals of travelling mothers. Addressing this absence, our book Travellin’ Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel explores the multiple dimensions of motherhood and travel. Through a variety of compelling creative pieces and critical essays with a global outlook and wide-ranging historical, cultural, and national perspectives, Travellin’ Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel examines the vital contributions made to travel writing and representations of travel by mothers. Autoethnographical approaches inform many of the pieces in this book, illustrating the significance of the personal and writing the self in re-imagining our cultural narratives and representations of travel, and the mothers who undertake it. This book is about mothers who travel, for mothers who travel with their children, and all those readers who have travelled in any capacity, with or without family.
Mom Egg Review
For mothers long on love for reading and short on time, a unique collection about being a mother and also being a daughter, partner, worker, artist. Mom Egg Review contains short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by the best mother writers from around the world, and by others writing about motherhood. A young mother conceals her anxieties about a new pregnancy. A Caucasian mother fears for her mixed-race child. A toddler who'd become enamored of "no" learns "yes." A poet recalls her grandmother's love and lessons. At the heart of the issue is a special poetry folio themed Compassionate Action. In a world barraged with images of violence, injustice, and suffering, frustration can lead to despair and feelings of powerlessness. The poems in this section inspire compassionate action, both at home and in the world, a model and a roadmap to empowerment in urgent circumstances. Mom Egg Review can be read through or dipped into; it is a collection to read, re-read and share. Spend time with mothers from around the world who offer keen insights on day-to-day and extraordinary activities of motherhood, and inspiration for connecting to our creative, compassionate selves.
Mom Egg Review
Welcome to Mom Egg Review Vol. 14-the Change issue! Change can be a lightning bolt, a bud's unfurling, or the inexorable melt of ice caps. A body swells with pregnancy, bends with illness, shrinks with age; a couple evolves or severs; a child slowly cycles through a myriad of incarnations. Or tornado, bomb, gunshot. Change is acute and cyclical, rhythmic and cataclysmic, personal and political, abstract and physical, natural and un-, absolute and incremental, often too gradual or too precipitous. Change is not just one-directional flow, something that happens to us-we can affect its course, embrace, finesse, challenge, or stem it. Mothers often serve as society's first responders, interlocutors of change for children and often others. There is also change that we make. Mothers effect change by example and by action, by our works-life and art. The works in this issue look unblinkingly at change; they investigate, interrogate, and implement change, local and global. Enjoy the frank, thoughtful, and powerful poems and stories in this issue. May they inspire you to create the good changes needed in your world.
Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature
This book explores contemporary children’s and young adult novels writing back to history and oppression. Divided into three distinct yet interconnected parts, this thematic study analyses selected novels from across the globe, drawing on current critical debates to investigate how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power and language. Examinations of children’s and young adult novels from Britain, Ireland, Sweden, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand offer fresh readings of established texts, and provide important critical perspectives on lesser-known works. The book also examines the use of genre in children’s and young adult literature, including crime fiction, dystopia, coming-of-age, and historical fiction. Addressing vital social justice themes in contemporary children’s and young adult novels, such as human trafficking, postcolonialism, disaster, trauma, and gender and race inequality, the book presents a critically informed analysis of these compelling literary works and their engagement with social and cultural debates.
Mom Egg Review:
Welcome to Mom Egg Review Vol. 12 Mom Egg Review celebrates twelve years of publishing the finest poetry, fiction, and creative prose by and about mothers and motherhood. This issue features work focusing on the paradigm shift of pregnancy and child-raising, mothers' work, mothers' bodies, partnering and going it alone, loss, caring for the ill and dying, nurturing our planet, denouncing injustice, and making art. MER 12 spotlights work on subject matter often ignored by mainstream media, but pivotal to understanding our human situation. The works are insightful, brave, cynical, tragic and funny. We take great joy in presenting the work of these talented writers and artists, both established and emerging, and pride in having published such vital work for a dozen years. We value our readers' participation in our community as we keep growing and presenting the best work by and about mothers and motherhood.
Mom Egg Review 16:
This issue of Mom Egg Review looks at PLAY and WORK through the lens of motherhood. Celebrated and emerging literary writers explore the following themes: The work of mothering, of creating art, of scholarship. Office work, housework, school work, political work, physical labor. Life's work. Work that's respected and work that's denigrated. Jobs that lift you up and jobs that suck your soul. Our mothers' and fathers' work. The work of nurture. Work for pay, work for love, work for duty. Working on ourselves and working on our kids or on relationships. Working out. Working it out. And of course, we're interested in the interplay between work and play. And also--How do mothers play: with children, with partners, with friends, on their own? How do children play at various stages? Is it irresponsible to play in a damaged world-or necessity? What types of play nourish you, and which are playing with fire? Is play as enjoyable as it's cracked up to be? Is your work your play? Read MER 16 for the insights of fine literary writing on a mother's world of work and play.
MOM EGG REVIEW 15
Mom Egg Review is a literary journal about motherhood. MER is about being a mother in its many varieties; it is also about being a daughter, worker, partner, artist, a member of cultures and communities; MER explores how these identities can collide and coexist. We publish work with ideas, exciting use of language, and strong creative energy. Our writers consider the body, work, family and societal roles, sex, local and global crises, and making art. The stories and poems-intelligent, irreverent, lyrical, funny, sharp-cast light on the multifaceted life experience of motherhood, and out from it.
