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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 funny. We take great joy in presenting the work of these talented writers and artists, both established and emerging, and pride in having published such vital work for a dozen years. We value our readers' participation in our community as we keep growing and presenting the best work by and about mothers and motherhood.

MER - Mom Egg Review presents literary work and art on motherhood and women's lives. MER supports and celebrates mother writers and artists through print and online publications, performances, workshops, and events. Enjoy our annual print issue and read more at MERliterary.com. Contributors: Deborah Bacharach, Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Jennifer Barber, Carrie Bennett, Margo Berdeshevsky, Lisa Creech Bledsoe, Mary Bonina, Mary Lou Buschi, Kevin Carey, Robert Carr, M.P. Carver, Sofia Chapman, Eileen Cleary, Ashley W. Cundiff, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Ariane Dreyfus, Merridawn Duckler, Suzanne Edison, Jennifer R. Edwards, Kelley Engelbrecht, Natalie Shaw Evjen, Lupe Eyde-Tucker, Sandra Fees, Jessica Femiani, Brandel France de Bravo, Elizabeth Cranford Garcia, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, Marie Gauthier, Jennifer Georgescu, Joan Kwon Glass, Laura Goldin, Robin Gow, Pat Hale, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, Marie Harris, Katie Hartsock, Sarah Herrington, Katelynn Hibbard, Melissa Joplin Higley, Rae Hoffman Jager, Crystal Karlberg, Tina Kelley, Claire Keyes, Debbie Koenig, Andrea Krause, Anaïs La Rocca, Danielle Lemay, Barbara Lock, Tarisa A.M. Matsumoto, Dw McKinney, Livia Meneghin, Chloe Yelena Miller, Gloria Monaghan, Abby E. Murray, Loretta Oleck, Dayna Patterson, Anne Elezabeth Pluto, Jennifer Pons, Kyle Potvin, Kimberly Ann Priest, Jessica Purdy, Kimberly Ramos, Glenis Redmond, Jeff Rivers, Tessa Ellison Rossi, Karen Elizabeth Sharpe, Martha Silano, Dorsía Smith Silva, Anne Starling, Meghan Sterling, Darlene Taylor, Elaine Terranova, Pramila Venkateswaran, Lauren Walke, Annelies Zijderveld

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 it.

Welcome to Mom Egg Review Vol. 14-the Change issue! Change can be a lightning bolt, a bud's unfurling, or the inexorable melt of ice caps. A body swells with pregnancy, bends with illness, shrinks with age; a couple evolves or severs; a child slowly cycles through a myriad of incarnations. Or tornado, bomb, gunshot. Change is acute and cyclical, rhythmic and cataclysmic, personal and political, abstract and physical, natural and un-, absolute and incremental, often too gradual or too precipitous. Change is not just one-directional flow, something that happens to us-we can affect its course, embrace, finesse, challenge, or stem it. Mothers often serve as society's first responders, interlocutors of change for children and often others. There is also change that we make. Mothers effect change by example and by action, by our works-life and art. The works in this issue look unblinkingly at change; they investigate, interrogate, and implement change, local and global. Enjoy the frank, thoughtful, and powerful poems and stories in this issue. May they inspire you to create the good changes needed in your world.