The Act of Breathing: A NICU Glossary
August 4th, 2022 | by Anahita Vieira
Trauma (medical): Poorly understood and rarely acknowledged. Symptoms include, but are not limited to: rage, shame, helplessness
Browsing the "Poetry" Tag
First Unbroken Sleep
June 13th, 2022 | by Anna Laura Reeve
After four and a half hours of unbroken sleep I feel like a swan The ‘trying to
In Search of Sense
June 9th, 2022 | by Jamie Asaye FitzGerald
I kiss my children, not once, but as many times as I can before they pull away
Promises
February 8th, 2022 | by Leah Ongiri
We open the door in the morning It is dark and rainy like all morningsThe smell of wet earth rises like
When the Body Speaks
February 1st, 2022 | by Elsa Valmidiano
Black and Brown women have the most to lose when corporate and legislative limitations curtail our reproductive freedom.
Breathing Lessons
September 8th, 2021 | by Katie Hoogendam
My mother died of a lung disease,one that stalked her all my life. In kindergarten, I was pulled from class, taken to the hospital,
Alva Kims from Cameroon Asks a Question
May 27th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Lovely daughter for adoption, says the caption
Why he is not my little boy
March 9th, 2021 | by Wandajune Bishop-Towle
Too tall. Born too late, too old. His eyes—lakes of day not brown like mine. He sings too high too loud in a
Joanna Clapps Herman’s NOA SONGS
December 11th, 2020 | by Joanna Clapps Herman
This creatura, miracoluccia, piccinina, thislittle, especially against my chest, arms splayed, loosened to comfort, in surrender.
Ginny Wiehardt on KNIFE SKILLS
October 23rd, 2020 | by Ginny Wiehardt
‘Knife Skills’(After a BBC documentary on postpartum OCD) They gleamed at her from kitchen drawers, reflecting the self she feared,