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Celebrate World Read Aloud Day!
February 25th, 2010People write to me at Literary Mama fairly regularly, asking me to help them promote this or that event, and most of the time the events don’t have much to do with the mission of Literary Mama. But when I heard from the folks at LitWorld about World Read Aloud Day, it was easy to [...]
Writing about Reading, from Rebecca Steinitz
February 17th, 2010I was so happy when, a couple months ago, Mama, PhD contributor Rebecca Steinitz pitched a column to Literary Mama; every installment of How Does My Bookshelf Grow? has given me new book ideas and new ways to think about the books I’ve already read. This month might be my favorite installment yet, with its [...]
New Writing from Sheila Squilante
February 15th, 2010Sheila Squillante’s essay for Mama, PhD, Student/Body, describes her experience teaching a Business Writing class during her first pregnancy; this month on Literary Mama, she writes about her son’s infancy
and her hopes for an easier time with her second:
When I found myself pregnant a second time I promised myself it would be different. I was [...]
New writing from Irena Smith
January 11th, 2010Readers who loved Irena Smith’s essay, Failure to Progress, in Mama, PhD won’t want to miss her new piece this month in Literary Mama. Here’s an excerpt:
So there we were, my husband David and I, on a road trip with our thirteen-year-old late last July, and I hadn’t a thing to wear. And when I [...]
An update from Miriam Peskowitz
December 2nd, 2009Miriam Peskowitz was a writer recommended to us for the project by Amy Hudock. Elrena and I were both admirers of Miriam’s book, The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes A Good Mother? (Seal Press, 2005) and knew she would be able to contribute a foreword to the book that was [...]
The Long and Winding Road
September 7th, 2009Jean Kazez’s essay opens the third section of the book, Recovering Academic, and tells the story of her gradual departure from tenure-track teaching after her twins were born. “This was no easy decision,” she writes, “After telling my department head I was interested in adjunct teaching, I felt like a boat cut from its moorings, [...]
Recovering Academic
September 4th, 2009When Elrena and I first began talking about Mama, PhD, we quickly developed a wish list of contributors, and Jennifer Margulis’ name was on both our lists. We knew she had a PhD; we knew she had a thriving freelance writing and editing career. We didn’t know how she got from one to the other. [...]
One Mamá’s Dispensable Myths and Indispensable Machines
August 31st, 2009In her essay, Angelica Duran writes about the machines that get her, a single mother of two, through her graduate program: the computer on which she wrote; the bicycle which carried her, her books, and sometimes her kids from home to school and back again; the movable library shelves, where her young son quickly learned [...]
Coming to Terms at Full Term
August 24th, 2009In September, 2006, Natalie Kertes Weaver submitted her essay, Coming to Terms at Full Term, to be considered for inclusion in Mama, PhD. The essay begins:
On my way back to my office, I ran into a colleague, accompanied by her son, a handsome, six-foot tall, high school senior. She smiled at me and [...]
Caution: Women at Work
December 10th, 2008Plan to attend St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Tenth Annual Women Studies Colloquium, which will include a reading by Mama, PhD contributors Jennifer Cognard-Black, Della Fenster, and Elisabeth Gruner (Tuesday, March 24, 8:00 P. M.). For more information, visit their website.
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