SPECIAL ISSUE I // MAY 2025

The Power of
Motherhood & Womanhood

Images above, from left to right:
“Sanctuary”, cover of issue 2 using the piece “Moments of Hope”, “Tales from Home” – all by Autumn Rozario Hall

Read and view individual pieces in this issue below, or you can view the issue as a whole by downloading the PDF at this link.

table of contents

E D I T O R’ S N O T E

LINKS TO HELP WOMEN, MOTHERS, AND CHILDREN IN PALESTINE AND ABROAD:
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF)
Women for Women International – Palestine Crisis Response
United Nations Population Fund (helps pregnant women & newborns in Gaza)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders)
Save the Children
Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
The Malala Fund
Women Deliver
Mayday Health (supports women living in areas with strict reproductive rights laws)

P O E T R Y

Alexa Brockamp Hoggatt

TWO POEMS:
A Letter to the ‘Just Wait’ Brigade
Daughter to Mother

Allison Carol Schmocker

TWO POEMS:
Hysterectomy
A Lovely Crash

Allison Mei-Li

TWO POEMS:
Everything, Even a Shadow
Lasterday

Amanda Andrews

smooth legs.

Amelia L. Williams

Stem Mother

Amelia Napiorkowski

Failure to Thrive”

Ashley Kirkland

TWO POEMS:
Vernal Equinox: Cincinnati Nature Center / Approaching the Last Day of Nature Preschool
Now, Now

Bri Gearhart Staton

A Ghost Story

Brooke Gross

delivery was smooth

Cat Speranzini

Post-Partum

Dré Pontbriand

Ode to Bryan

Elizabeth C. Garcia

Pietà

Erin O’Regan White

Object Permanence

Jaqi Holland

Shared Language

Jessica Aure Pratt

Interruption


Lauren Merryfield

TWO POEMS:
Mom Brain
Muscle Memory

Lorrie Ness

Modern Eve

Lydia Ford

(grief)

Mackenzie Sains

Cauldron of Change

Mary Simmons

Motherhood

Neha M. Sampat

Oh Inaya…

Peter Chiu

the first time

Preeti Talwai

Vestige

Rachel Beachy

TWO POEMS:
AI Will Not Wake Up in the Night and Hold My Baby
The Night Is Dead, the Babies Are Alive, the Mothers Are Somewhere in Between

Rachel Hapanowicz

After the Slaughter

Rory Meyer

one

Sarah Cummins Small

Picking Raspberries in the Rain

Sarah T. Jewell

The Lost Elephant

Shannon Marzella

Grandmothers

Shoshanna Cortes

Honey and Cocoa

Tristan Tuttle

Do Not Disturb

Waverly Vernon

Alchemy of Her

P R O S E

A R T

Autumn Rozario Hall

3 Pieces:
Moments of Hope (Cover Art)
Sanctuary
Tales from Home

Ashlee Scott

Sparkling Wine

Becky Krotts

My Baby

Harper Hanson

Interconnected

Heidi Neff

The Seed

Janet Cooke

First Kiss

Jessica McNamee

All My Boys

Kendra Sanchez

Postpartum

Tristan Tuttle

Honor Her

Yazz Fawaz

Wisdom

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