We’re celebrating at Literary Mama! Five fresh poems contemplate the writer’s life, from creating our own language, watching our children make their mark, to reimagining a poetic (and cultural) icon.  This group speaks to my heart; I am always partial to writing about writing. Alphabet for the Stay-at-Home Parent by Jennifer O’Grady The body’s deepest…Continue reading Happy National Poetry Month!

This February’s poetry on Literary Mama seeks the sublime in the everyday. In “A Good Day,” Heather Taylor Johnson asks, “Are you aware outside the sun yawns?” Ashleigh Brown explains in “Cold Coffee” that “A woman drinks cold coffee because / the daily prayers of tangled laundry and crumpled homework are / sacred.”

Attention parents of boys: January’s poems, published in Literary Mama today, feature stages of raising sons, from Julie Stotz-Ghosh showing her infant his First Snow to Rebecca Lanning speaking To My Son on the Morning of his Scholastic Aptitude Test. From toy trains to Bottlecaps, the relationship mothers share with sons as they grow into men…Continue reading January issue of Literary Mama