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North American Motherhood: POEMS

September 10th, 2018 | by Jamie Asaye FitzGerald

North American Motherhood Endless washing, cleaning, resupplying, sterilizing, worrying, reading up on, not reading, caring for, compromising, fantasizing, obsessing over


Catch and Release: Poems

August 30th, 2018 | by Katie Hoogendam

  Catch and Release Shovel in the soil my mother pulled a drag took a swig lifted her eyebrows. Without


Re-Birth: Poems

April 30th, 2018 | by Samantha Barrow

  Expend   Motherhood shows up like liquid god in the veins   You see it the faint reflection shimmering


Bending Down: Poems

April 17th, 2018 | by Margo Hollingsworth

  Intrusion   “They don’t want them!” she whispered. The nurse anoints my forehead with a wet washcloth.   “Those


The Miscarriage: A Poem

April 11th, 2018 | by Ingrid Jendrzejewski

  The Miscarriage   I am a battleship, sinking.   When the USS West Virginia went down at Pearl Harbor,


Split: Poems

April 6th, 2018 | by Samantha Barrow

  After Weaning   My tits feel like corpses or rather split logs after tree   I’m feeding my body


HIDDEN MOTHER: An Excerpt

January 10th, 2018 | by Laura Larson

In 19th century portrait studios, photographers employed a number of different strategies to stabilize the body during the long exposures



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