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...

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...

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...