Saturday, July 31, 2010


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2010
Alien Fist Radhika Singh
On taking the Boston Red Line from the MFA Leslie Ritchie
Vasilissa's Doll Anne Brannen
Real Boy Elizabeth Bastos
Leah on Shopping Nancy Scott
Field Trip Jill Rivera Greene
Poem to My Seven-Month-Old Daughter Ending with Two Slightly Altered Sentences from The Book Thief Tricia Asklar
gift of youth Larry Bauer
Swallowing Tires Jeanne Althouse
Libation Matthew Vetter
Undressing Vedan Bethany Saltman
Responsibility David Harris Ebenbach
Daughter/Mother and A Hare at Dusk Kevin McLellan
Walking Fiona Tinwei Lam
The Road to Hell Is Paved Janice D. Soderling
One Hundred and Two Degrees Maria Scala
The ladies' quilting club is out today, Sarah Wells
How to Be Alone Julie Bruck
Tree Kirstin Hotelling Zona
Scenes from the Pediatric ER Jennifer Saunders
Oh, No. Ellen Kartchner Gregory
Unexpected Rebekah Skaggs
The Apiary Eleanor Stanford
Peek-a-boo Baby Shannon Armitage
Claire in a Swing Anne Whitehouse
Summer Solstice Ashley Nissler
Dragged at Dusk from the Park Meredith Drake
Brevity Tracy Lucas
Pantoum Melissa Frederick
Lost Fiona Tinwei Lam
Pregnancy and Baby Songs Margaret Young
Josie and the Goose Wendy Levine DeVito
it has a mind of its own Rachel Levy
2009
My Daughter in the Garden Sally Houtman
prayer Tori Grant Welhouse
Cataract Tori Grant Welhouse
Padded Walls Tracy Lucas
Afternoon Nap Marjorie Maddox
The Last Bath of the First Snow Colleen Michaels
Mother-Son Dance at the Elementary School Laura Sobbott Ross
Junk food poem Rachel Levy
Tea Party Leah Mooney
Engorged Tania Pryputniewicz
Untitled Katrina Mariah Jensen
Caramel Macchiato Susan Plett
I Am a Fever Sonya Feher
The Growing Mound Kiley Frank
I am. Still. Angie Yingst
Until I Do Not Jennifer Saunders
The Muse Gets Angry Before Leaving for School Ona Gritz
Motherhood is cruel Molly Snyder Edler
Alphabet Bag Amanda Skjeveland
Last week Charlotte went to college Kim Triedman
Let Go Jessica Cuello
My Indigo Child Beret Skorpen-Tifft
Placenta, encapsulated Shannon North
Michaela's Song Susan Plett
Dallas Delivery Therese Gilardi
Mothchild Jessica McGuffey
Memory Ingrid Steblea
Night Mothers Andrea Potos
Achilles' Heel Mary McGhee Crosby
Fever Fugue Erin Murphy
The Perks of Not Standing Up Margaux Fragoso
The Baby Peeled the Clock Today Claire Massey
My daughter, four, confronts autumn and all its contradictions Sian Griffiths
A Bag of Green Apples Stephanie Bryant Anderson
Upon Discovering My Wife Curled on a Dog Towel in the Downstairs Bathroom During My Fifth Month of Pregnancy Tricia Asklar
Tooth Fairy Amy Watkins
Morning Ride Amy Watkins
Penny Horse Matthew Vetter
Measurements Matthew Vetter
holding my son at 2 a.m. Larry Bauer
Shavuot (First Fruits) David Harris Ebenbach
Mother Less, Mother More Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Wrestling the Octopus Melissa Scholes Young
Presage Arlyn Miller
Penny Alchemy Mary Chi-Whi Kim
Never Done Wendy Levine DeVito
The Things We Do for Love Arlyn Miller
In the path of Mary Lori Freshwater
Winter Bath Sharon Dornberg-Lee
Given Jessica Walsh
Bear Kristen Staby Rembold
Hope Universal Kory Wells
What Will We Do This Morning Nancy Vona
Fabrication B. K. Fischer
Happy National Poetry Month! Ginny Kaczmarek
Curious George Flees Over the Prison Wall Sally Rosen Kindred
Tuesday Mornings Merle Huerta
Meditation on a broken child, var. 2 Jeneva Stone
Sweat Test for Cystic Fibrosis Malaika King Albrecht
I Talk with My Friend by Canopic Jars Wanda Schubmehl
Meeting the Train Tess Thompson
The Cardinal Leah Odze Epstein
My Mother's Chest Pamela Villars
My turn Rebekah Goode-Peoples
Seven-year-olds Char Makela
To Two Teenage Girls Playing with One Another's Hair in the Back of My Classroom Katie Fesuk
Childhood Curiosity Joan Rene Goldberg
An Expectant Mother's Motion Parallax Tricia Louvar
I Am from Everywhere Meredith Winn
2008
Reading SkippyJon Jones at Bedtime Is Suddenly Not Enough Rachel Bunting
Some Villanelles Go Nowhere Carolyn Harris Zukowski
At the End of the Day Heather Derr-Smith
Barren Eliana Osborn
Mother Barbara G. S. Hagerty
Numina Erica Maria Litz
Natural Balance Channie Greenberg
Wild Craft Penn Kemp
Lulled By Suzanne Edison
Should Have Been Ashley Nissler
Wish List Kathryn Petruccelli
Five Seeds Rachel Gurevich
Kitchen Daffodils Elizabeth Bruno
Cookie Bakers Lois Parker Edstrom
Eaten Alive Yvonne Pearson
In the Kitchen Ann Walters
Poem to Myself Sarah Byck
Individuation Sarah Byck
Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head Cheryl Dumesnil
At Chess Camp Picking Up My Daughter Meg Pokrass
Nap, Interrupted Robert Moore
Apiarial Ralph Black
kindness Larry Bauer
To My Daughter, After a Fight Anna Evans
Swimming (Stretchmarks) Kris Underwood
Dead Man's Float Lorene Lamothe
How to disappoint your mother Carolee Sherwood
The Last Page Mary Langer Thompson
Christina Janice D. Soderling
Iron Marci Ameluxen
Ethan and Lily, After School Bethany Rountree
Mom Art Maija Barnett
so much deepens Kelly Lundgren Pietrucha
pieces of a liquid puzzle Gloria Wimberley
Rain Susan Weissman
Turn the Fire Off Andrea Richesin
Skating with Tropes Lorene Lamothe
Ogunquit Lorene Lamothe
Learning to Paint at Age 45 Jayne Pupek
Phases Ona Gritz
Tangled Bella Mahaya Carter
Seraphim Elizabeth Schott
The Trajectory of Her Legs Kristin Berger
The Sonogram Technician Jenny Rough
The Bath Laurie Junkins
Quickening Laura Van Prooyen
A Birthday in the Making Tricia Louvar
Guitar Lessons Carolyn Harris Zukowski
Rage Kate Fernyhough
$1,000 down Madelyn Rosenberg
The Mystery of Footprints Jessica Purdy
Suburbia Christina Kapp
2007
The Seven-Year-Old Stefanie Freele
Like Lambs Adrian Gibbons Koesters
Do Not Susan Withers Claunch
When My Son Sees Me Through the Window Stephanie Woolley-Larrea
When You Go, What Will You Leave? Lisa Zerkle
Flight of Fancy Lisa Romeo
Family Reunion Sharon Waller Knutson
The Grandmother at the Ends of the Earth Linda Ann Strang
Waiting, at 30 weeks Elizabeth C. Dorsch Maxey
Being Pregnant Shelly Nation
What You Wanted Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Her Broken Ticking Clock Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Eclipse Box Tiff Holland
Preschool Sarah McCanless
Sins of Omission: Remembrance for a Birthday Suzanne Richardson Harvey
Kindergarten Haircut Andrea Potos
September Will Find Us Patricia Romano
Another Winter Night Angela Papalas
What You Lose If You Use Water as a Preservative Jessica Goodfellow
Short Tantrum on a Long Afternoon Leah Odze Epstein
Working Hands Jessica Restaino
Never Claudia Putnam
Miracle Stacey Foster
Extinct Madelyn Rosenberg
before father's day MaryAnn McKibben Dana
[untitled] David Harris Ebenbach
A Perfect Pair Odarka Stockert
bone of my bone Larry Bauer
Chaos Theory J. B. Rowell
Two Beams of Fragile Light J. B. Rowell
I Chew on My Dog Driver Britt Kaufmann
Demolition Jennifer Warren
Teresian Wells Kate Falvey
And One More Mommy Tzivia Gover
planning Barbara Joan Tiger Bass
To My Third Child (A Son, Unborn) Angela Pineiro
Now Appearing Stephanie Sesic
Step Parent (choir) Lorraine Healy
Almost Mine Alison McCabe
She Is Four Months Old Kim H. Cardoso
A Poem Written in Ezra's Sleep Elizabeth Faith Aamot
Cold Sprite, Please, with a Side of Potatoes and Fraggles Leigh Anne Clark
La Llorona Nanette Guadiano-Campos
SIDS Jamie Calloway
Matrioshka Dolls Odarka Stockert
Mid-Claire Donna Levine Gershon
Mother/Daughter Day Andrea Potos
The Ripe Time January O’Neil
Birth in the Squatting Position Kim H. Cardoso
What I Would Show Her Donna Vorreyer
2006
Air show on evening news Lynn Storngin
The Thing About Summer, or: On Having Visited Fort Ticonderoga Seven Times Since June Jill Crammond Wickham
When He Returns Kyle Potvin
This Ona Gritz
The wind is hymning the trees to readiness Danielle Lapidoth
Picnic in July Paige Heim-Thompson
Born Danielle Lapidoth
Biological Determinism Kathryn DeZur
proof MaryAnn McKibben Dana
Women's Work Mary Rohrer-Dann
At Bedtime Ann Walters
she would rather change her bones Anna Evans
Two Discoveries Markie Babbott
Waiting for the Bus Denise Kincy
Rapunzel's Mother Carolyn Williams-Noren
Stillbirth Ann McNelly
She Graham Burchell
Betrayal Caitlyn Childress Bergeron
Demeter Takes Her Daughter to School Alifair Skebe
Today, She Arrived Stefanie Freele
Abortion (Like Motherhood) Changes Nothing Joanne Arnott Zenthoefer
Six Ellen Anstey
Special Relativity Jane VanderVelde
His mother Sharon Waller Knutson
Too Much Work Kim Benjamin
Her Colors Cassie Premo Steele
Fireflies Leslie Klipsch
After Pregnancy Shelley Girdner
Tender Button Pamela Hughes
AprĆØs Moi Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Hush Little Baby Mary Weiler
New Mother Alone Andrea Potos
Big Woman Kim Benjamin
Stigmata Kate Madden Yee
Errour's Tale Cynthia Kuhn
Open Wide Jeanne Higgs
Room for Two in the Blue Canoe Cati Porter
Poem for My Father James Brown
Telling Eileen BethAnne Yoxsimer Paulsrud
pregnancy Larry Bauer
To the Father My Daughters Do Not Have, Susan Culver
Word-Girl Mary Moore
Plague Teneice Delgado
Tropical March Kim Gek Lin Short
Loss Joanna Weston
Mother Mary Sullivan
To Grandma Neva Kim Cope Tait
My Life in Pajamas Michele Lesko
Heart of Morning S.M. Flaherty Jones
Untitled Victoria Vernell
Sleep Valarie Jonas
Daybreak Megan Freeman
Ironing Sheets Pam Tucker
As I Walk Laurie Guerrero-Garces
The Prodigal Wife Cassie Premo Steele
The Moth-Eaten World Suzanne Edison
Namaste Rachel Iverson
Legacy Sally Rosen Kindred
Her Hands Rachel Tzvia Back
On Science Lisa Ortiz
Why I Didn't Write a Poem Nancy Tupper Ling
Phone Marrow Cyn Kitchen
Home, I Say Ona Gritz
I Will Hold You Diana Ayton-Shenker
The Book of Sleep (XXV) Eleanor Stanford
2005
Singing as He Does Rhonda Lundquist
Boundary Man Barbara Kennard
Nighttime in the Country of New Mothers Ona Gritz
Three Orange Nasturtiums Britt Kaufmann
Ivory Bill Lisa Ortiz
Lila: Found Poem Laura Cherry
Unearthed Christine Orchanian Adler
The Fight Una Winterman
Inkblot Sheila Black
Dishes Laura Cherry
Walking Backward Clarissa Jakobsons
Night-Night S.M. Flaherty Jones
She Rote Suzume Shi
Fibonacci Numbers Kathryn DeZur
Nameless Almost First Mary Chi-Whi Kim
Birth, Still Cristina Breshears
Child of My Heart Carol Spear Stewart
This Is The Son Anna Evans
To the Baby Upstairs Suzannah Gilman
Beautiful Daughter Mary Moore
Like an Old Lover Carol Weis
Pantry Micheline Maylor
The Night We Decide on Divorce Ona Gritz
nighttime with dorothea Rachel Iverson
5:30 a.m. and inside the house Liza Porter
The Impatient Mother Ona Gritz
Son of a Bitch garrie keyman
No! Laurie Wagner
Perspective Deanna Jones
Redemption Robin Ann Lewis
Downstream Lisa Zerkle
When I Awake, Daughter, What Matters Denise Calvetti Michaels
Dreams for Them Joanna Weston
Preschool Rachel Iverson
Pregnancy Lori Romero
Through This Kathryn Petruccelli
Layette Carol Church
Outside Womb Estelle Lipp
Family Photo, 1975 Denise Calvetti Michaels
maybe sometime snowflakes Larry Bauer
Caught Before Flight Vicki Whicker
mother love Alison Pryer
Fuel Joseph Chelius
Between Us Cheryl Chaffin
sacred ground Larry Bauer
Mama's Orange Robe Cathleen Daly
Circus Clown: Part I Susan Laguna
Nebraska Holly Day
Vigil at Four Months Maria Scala
Way to Go Julia van Gorder
Motherless World Mary Hotlen
Casi's Face Gabriela Anaya ValdepeƱa
At A Distance, Imperfectly Alison Hicks
Wiping Bums Linda Lee Crosfield
My Baby, Napping Tess Thompson
Sweet dreams Fran Bartkowski
Dressing Una Winterman
Diary of a Young Mother Liz Henry
Rules for New Parents Jen Karetnick
The Smallest Things Nicole Collins Starsinic
Mesozoic Mama Shara Faskowitz
Packing the Car Linda Lee Crosfield
All That There Is Holly A. Schullo
Hospital Quartet Phyllis Capello
Festival Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld
Swimming Lessons Lisa Hammond Rashley
Imagine if He Did Jennifer VanBuren
Babysitting Linda Blaskey
2004
Shared Custody Ona Gritz
Necessary Turns Liz Abrams-Morley
Meeting the Horizon with Connor at Nine Months Catherine Esposito Prescott
Overheard at Play Group Pamela Hamilton
Fertility Restored Monika Lee
Lifeblood Suzanne R. Thurman
Verses for the Early Child Deborah Diemont
Matinal Lisa Ortiz
LiLi Laura A. Lopez
Alterations Wendy H. Gill
Testing the Seams Ona Gritz
My Skin Became a Touchable Thing Cassie Premo Steele
Boyish Dreams of Manhood Jennifer Brown
Best Home Catherine Platt
Daughter Cindy Hill
Daddy Lover Catherine Newman
It Could Be Me Margaret MacInnis
Lesson from a Poet Minati Singh
Playthings of the Gods Liz Dolan
Born Day Penaflor
White Clouds on Blue Sky Ann Hite
Answers Lisa Suhair Majaj
The Juggler Joanna Weston
The Goddess of Destiny Janet Paszkowski
Woman Fables Peggy Hong
The Carol Lawrence School of Dance Carol Graser
Sanctuary Peggy Hong
Family Bed Ona Gritz
Three Sons and a Cow Joanna Weston
Moods (14 years old) Sara Epstein
Edge of the Nest Jessica de Koninck
See That? Cat MacDiarmid
Boy Child Ona Gritz
Something New Under the Moon Cat MacDiarmid
Third Month Sarah Pinto
Not Mom Gwen A. Jadwin
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elmo Madeline Bodin
I tell my daughter Anne Boyer
Miscarriage of an English Teacher Megeen R. Mulholland
Grasping at Ghosts Ronda Broatch
Passage Trish Lindsey Jaggers
Daughter Deesha Philyaw
The Way Up Is the Way Down Mary Moore
Mouth Esther Altshul Helfgott
Sepia Photo -- One-Room Schoolhouse 1917 Liz Dolan
Children Dancing Cammy Iverson
Alternation of Generation Kathryn Kerr
Museum Piece Anne Boyer
Dreaming the Meuse Lizard Carine Topal
Song for the first, when first conceived (of) Anne Boyer
Old Body Julia Lisella
Scottie Trish Lindsey Jaggers
The Glossy Bodies of Peppers Denise Calvetti Michaels
Matermorphosis KerryAnn Cochrane
Mommies Cheryl Maddalena
Seeing Babies Ann Neuser Lederer
Weaning Deanna Jones
Why I Write in the Bathroom Closet Jayne Pupek
Holy Water Bethany Torode
And Still I Have Loved Gretchen Fletcher
Ghost Season Sheila Black
After The Bath Bella Mahaya Carter
Mothering by Scent Ona Gritz
The Vigil: A Pantoum Cathy Barber
What Would Betty Do? Diane Payne
2003
Mother of Alphabets Ruth Daigon
The Beginning Patricia Caspers
Pushing 7 1/2, Falling into 8 Vicki Whicker
The Quickening Edvige Giunta
Mothers Song Ruth Walker
The Beginnings of Rain Cassie Premo Steele
Visiting My Daughter, an Exchange Student in Spain Suellen Wedmore
To the Woman Who Left Her Old Age To Someone Older Than She Will Ever Be Ruth Daigon
Dream of the Night Key Liz Henry
My Middle Daughter, on the Edge of Adolescence, Learns to Play the Saxophone Barbara Crooker
Four a.m. Martha Silano
Morgans Svea Barrett
Eclipse Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Fan Christina Conrad
Snow Plant Leah Korican
Slipping Svea Barrett
Blowing Soap Bubbles Barbara Crooker
The Blue Snake Lies Curled in my Bowl Like Oatmeal Barbara Crooker
Perennial Ronda Broatch