Mom Egg Review is a journal of literary writing on motherhood. Join us in celebrating our sixteenth annual print issue with a reading by contributors.

Thie new issue of MER focuses on PLAY and WORK through the lens of motherhood. Celebrated and emerging literary writers explore office work, housework, political work, physical labor, creating art. Jobs that lift you up and jobs that suck your soul. The work of nurture. Life’s work. And also, how mothers play: with children, partners, friends, on their own.

Barrow Street Press presents an evening of poetry, celebrating our new spring publications.

Claudia Keelan, poet, literary scholar, and translator, reads from her new and selected, We Step Into The Sea: New And Selected Poems.

Timothy Liu, reader of occult esoterica and author of ten books of poems, reads from his new and selected, Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain 1992-2017.

The Teen Weeklong Workshop invites young poets to step into the living tradition of poetry. Creative and curious students from all corners of the globe convene at Poets House for a marathon of poetry reading and writing, responding and connecting to works of contemporary poetry and creating their own poetry portfolio. The week is a ton of fun, filled with a myriad of poetic games and exercises! The core of the workshop is led by Poets House resident educators who facilitate discussions and lots of group bonding (as well as individualized attention).

Poets and publishers, Paul Genega and Pamela Hughes, will read from their books of poems and discuss craft and publishing tips.

Book Launch! Marisol Baca will read from her debut full length collection of poems, Tremor (Three Mile Harbor Press). The former poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera, called it “A serrated soul-piercing Geiger Counter. Shattering. Prize.”

Join the International Women’s Writing Guild for its Spring Big Apple Conference, in its second year at Poets House.

Join us for a celebration of our brilliant and dedicated interns! Featuring: Valentine Conaty, Abby Reynolds, Amelea Ng, Alyson Fusaro, and Rachel Rubino.

Poets House is a comfortable, accessible place for poetry—a library and meeting place which invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry. Poets House seeks to document the wealth and diversity of modern poetry, to stimulate dialogue on issues of poetry in culture, and to cultivate a wider audience for poetry.

John Barr was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up in a rural township outside of Chicago. Graduating from Harvard College on a Navy scholarship, he served five years on ships including three tours to Vietnam. Over a thirty-year career as an investment banker, he was Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and founded three startups. He has taught in the Graduate Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College and served on the boards of Yaddo, Bennington College, and the Poetry Society of America, the latter two as board chair.