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Notes on Motherhood: Abundant by Sarah Meacham
Hey, what’s up? Well, I’ve been stung by a bee. Oh! Are you okay? Is it swelling? I think I should come home. You’re coming home? Yeah I think maybe I should. He hung up. She pressed the red circle...
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Notes On Motherhood: A Doll For Detta by Caroline Farrell
Detta climbed the stairs for the fifth time. She moved slowly, partly because she did not want to spill the bowl of soup she was trying to balance on a tray, but mainly because her aching limbs were...
View ArticleNotes on Motherhood: “Against Motherhood” by Ingrid Sagor
This is an excerpt from a longer essay. It has been edited down slightly for publication in Entropy. “For me, poetry was where I lived as no-one’s mother, where I existed as myself.” —Adrienne Rich,...
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Notes on Motherhood: My Mother Said She Loved Me by Brenda Mutchnick
My mother said she loved me whenever she and my sister and I sat down on the tattered couch in our three room furnished apartment in the Blackstone Mansions on the South side of Chicago getting ready...
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Notes on Motherhood: “Doing Laundry” by Kelly Thompson
Twenty-one years old, already divorced with two children, I am of age but I don’t know how to be a mom and bread winner both. This particular morning, I am exhausted after working a morning radio...
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Notes On Motherhood: Excerpted pieces from The Birth & Death of Girl by Zoë...
In her dark waters, the glowing moon hangs like a ripe pomegranate. I milk her body from within. I milk her body from without. Her pooling liquid: living, rushing. The beating heart in the moon. To the...
View ArticleNotes on Motherhood: Three Poems by Lauren Clark
MOTHER’S DAY In her backyard my mother is hurling rocks at other people’s houses, surrounded by shovels and flowers, flinging dirt, screaming and searching for her husband. Everyone is her husband....
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Notes on Motherhood: Mother & Music by Dauren Velez
My mother read Dune to me when I was very young. At the time, I imagined the beginning of that book so vividly that it became a memory. It is a childhood memory of mine – Paul puts his hand in a box to...
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Notes on Motherhood: How to Visit Girl World by Lori Barrett
Sit on the sofa with your daughter, Stella, watching videos of Tavi Gevinson, the girl who started fashion blogging as a preteen then parlayed that success into an online magazine for teen girls called...
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Notes on Motherhood: Going Home by Emily Schikora
I am from a place that I do not like to name because it feels so strange to say out loud. I am both proud and self conscious of where I am from for a lot of reasons, perhaps most of all because when I...
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