Name: Maiden, Mother, Crone: A Reading Celebrating 22 Years of MER - Mom Egg Review
Start: 2025-05-31T14:00:00-0700
End: 2025-05-31T15:00:00-0700

Saturday May 31, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Cinema Salem - Theater 1

A reading focused on the “ages and stages” of motherhood. Children go through changes, and mothers adapt to these while experiencing their own growth, evolution, and exigencies. The readers, all Massachusetts-based or New England poets who have been published in MER, will share their thoughtful, nuanced, and often surprising poems on the various stages of motherhood and women's lives.

Speakers

Marjorie Tesser

Marjorie Tesser is editor-in-chief of MER-Mom Egg Review. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Important Thing Is (Firewheel Chapbook Award winner) and The Magic Feather (FLP). Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in SWWIM, poets.org, Cutleaf, and others. Marjorie... Read More →

Cindy Veach

Cindy Veach is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Monster Galaxy (MoonPath Press); Her Kind (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal; and Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press) a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and a Massachusetts... Read More →

Kathleen Aguero

Kathleen Aguero’s latest book is World Happiness Index (Tiger Bark Books). She has published five volumes of poetry and edited three collections of multi-cultural literature for U of GA Press. She is also poetry faculty-at-large in the Solstice low-residency M.F.A. program at Lasell... Read More →

Nadia Arioli

Nadia Arioli’s poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net three times and for the Pushcart Prize and can be found in Cider Press Review, Rust + Moth, As It Ought To Be, McNeese Review, Penn Review, Mom Egg, and elsewhere. Essays have been nominated for Best of the Net and the... Read More →

Jennifer Barber

Jennifer Barber is the author of the collections Rigging the Wind (2003), Given Away (2012), Works on Paper (2016), and The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made (2022). She is co-editor, with Fred Marchant and Jessica Greenbaum, of the anthology Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poems, and... Read More →

Carla Panciera

Carla Panciera’s poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals including Poetry, The New England Review, and RHINO. Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received AWP’s Grace Paley Short Fiction Award in 2013 and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press... Read More →

Joan Kwon Glass

Joan Kwon Glass is the mixed-race, Korean diasporic author of DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize) & NIGHT SWIM (winner of the 2022 Diode Editions Book Award), as well as the chapbooks HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES FOR A DEAD BOY (Harbor Editions... Read More →

Saturday May 31, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Cinema Salem - Theater 1 1 E India Square Mall, Salem, MA 01970 USA

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