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Rhythms of Women and Nature: An Interview with Artist Christine DeCamp
Christine DeCamp In your painting “Incubating”, we see a beautiful image of a half woman/half nautilus figure resting in the belly of a fish, kelp or seastrands descending from the top, and rising up...
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Jim Richards: Mother of Three, On Your Birthday, and Poem for a New Father
Mother of Three And pregnant. Two pink lines on the indicator stick you balanced on the edge of the sink—one line for happiness, one for hell—tip when I touch them, and fall. This means: you, mornings,...
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Father Witness, Birth vs. God: An Interview with Poet Jim Richards
Jim Richards An extreme state of ambivalence towards pregnancy is explored in “Mother of Three.” One of the things I most enjoyed about these three poems is the fearlessness with which God and birth...
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Fertile Variations: The Pregnant Body with Photographer Robyn Beattie
Fertile 1 Fertile 2 Fertile 3 Fertile 4 In your artist’s statement (read in full here ), you state, “Most of my photographs reflect my fascination with the mysterious and with nature’s...
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Brittney Corrigan: Three Poems
Guilt Poem: Unplanned You didn’t want another child. How you wept, how you weighed, in those first undertow hours, what you never before imagined. You looked up the addresses of clinics, your hand...
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Light and Gravity: A Sampler of Birth Images by Elizabeth Sobkiw
Elizabeth Sobkiw-Williams (www.elizandra.com) is currently an art teacher in Montclair, New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, Matthew. She earned her Bachelor of...
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4 Poems by Laura Thompson
Outgrown The pet store owner hates me. The bags of skittering crickets I buy can’t make up for the sales he’s lost. Releasing swarms of doubt among his customers, I tell them how big those babies...
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Poems by Sidney Thompson
MY WORD In ribbons the blinds make of the courtyard light, I press my lips to your mother’s moon belly and whisper, “It’s me again.” As if in answer for you, my child, eyes-closed, she says, “Hmmm,” a...
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Poems by Jennifer Givhan
LOVESONG OF THE BARREN WOMAN 1. Shipwreck Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink I sing of PCOS— That pirate disease, launching its scourge on my...
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Alice Catherine Jennings: Five Tudor Poems
Anne Boleyn, Second Wife of Henry VIII The Queen’s Failure The Stillbirth 07.27.1534 (After “The Witches Chant” in Macbeth by William Shakespeare) Sir Thomas Boleyn: Thrice the brinded cat hath...
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