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Check out our podcast with @karenpalmer.bsky.social here: https://open.substack.com/pub/literarymama/p/karen-palmer-diy-witness-protection?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbwh4jgys2whttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mlaztr6rsk2w"I was so terrified of life on the other side of divorce...I think that I was in such denial that I was unhappy in my marriage that I just thought I have to fix this no matter what." @heathersweeney.bsky.social, author of Camouflage: How I Emerged From the Shadows of a Military Marriage: https://open.substack.com/pub/literarymama/p/heather-sweeney-life-after-a-military?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web07 May 2026 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaztr6rsk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3ml6xxphdzs2qMisty Archambault's poem, "After Midnight": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/after-midnight06 May 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6xxphdzs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3ml453i6sus2hKrista Puttler's poem, "What is Brave": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/what-is-brave05 May 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml453i6sus2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkzq7wydwc2t"I need a moment to compose myself" from Ann Stinson's poem, "Email from Ex-husband": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/email-from-ex-husband04 May 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzq7wydwc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkxuwsiwl22t"Much of the novel is about the ripples and disruptions of speaking up in public and private spaces." Amanda Fields reviews Cindy Jiban's novel, The Probable Son: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/switched-at-birth-a-review-of-cindy-jibansthe-probable-son03 May 2026 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxuwsiwl22thttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkrzrmtzqs2l"our children have taken the music and art that have sustained my family and made them their own, rising from the ashes of my chain-smoking ancestors, phoenix-like." @jodiereadswrites.bsky.social interviews @natashawwrites.bsky.social: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/learning-to-love-a-conversation-with-natasha-williams01 May 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrzrmtzqs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkpmxwswos2d***NEW EPISODE!!!*** Amanda Fields & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social talk w @heathersweeney.bsky.social, author of Camouflage: How I Emerged From the Shadows of a Military Marriage, about divorce and rebuilding after years as a military spouse: https://open.substack.com/pub/literarymama/p/heather-sweeney-life-after-a-military?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web30 Apr 2026 12:37 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpmxwswos2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mknkd5no5s2uWhat are LM staff reading? Find out here: https://literarymama.com/blog/archives/2026/04/what-were-reading-april-2026.html29 Apr 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknkd5no5s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkn7edgop225"Heaven," a poem by Francine Rubin: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/heaven29 Apr 2026 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkn7edgop225https://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkknaza6d22q"a man I don’t know presses the blade of a knife to my throat." from Tamara Kreutz's poem, "The Quickening": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/the-quickening-228 Apr 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkknaza6d22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkib75tml22m"My husband is the parent; I never tell the children what to do. That’s the way I wanted it." -from Quade Hermann's essay on stepmothering, "Just the Woman Who Married their Father": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/just-the-woman-who-married-their-father27 Apr 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkib75tml22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkfm363xwc2n"What if a memory is a burden? What if a memory is ascribing you to an identity that you actually don't want to confront?" Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse, talks w Amanda Fields & Tiffanie Drayton on This Mama Is Lit! @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social https://open.substack.com/pub/literarymama/p/whitney-french-love-war-memory-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web26 Apr 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfm363xwc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkfm363xwc2n"What if a memory is a burden? What if a memory is ascribing you to an identity that you actually don't want to confront?" Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse, talks w Amanda Fields & Tiffanie Drayton on This Mama Is Lit! @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social https://open.substack.com/pub/literarymama/p/whitney-french-love-war-memory-and?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web26 Apr 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfm363xwc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkdnf3v7u22j"It shouldn’t come as a surprise that students will turn to AI to write these white-standardized essays...Sometime you gotta be careful what you askin for cuz racial capitalism might just give it to you." Carmen Kynard, "When Robots Come Home to Roost": http://carmenkynard.org/when-robots-come-home-to-roost/25 Apr 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdnf3v7u22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkdbgncq5c2u"How I would have clung to this poetry collection if I had been able to read it again and again in the deep hours of the morning nursing my daughter, finding new wisdom or comfort or beauty each time." Katherine Harnisch reviews Mia Ayumi Malhotra's Mothersalt: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/stills-from-the-life-of-a-writing-mother-a-review-of-mothersalt25 Apr 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdbgncq5c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mkailkiqgk2v"My bodily truth is available for me and others to see and interpret...My narrative truth is more private." Zihan Zhang interviews @gracet24.bsky.social, author of The Body Papers: A Memoir: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/exploring-truths-a-conversation-with-grace-talusan24 Apr 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkailkiqgk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mk5xib46ck2s"I wanted majesty only majesty." - from Laura Keeling's poem, "after my mother's mastectomy": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/after-my-mothers-mastectomy23 Apr 2026 11:58 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5xib46ck2shttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mk3prcxi722o"Your body is open as foremilk. Your body will not hold as tears." from @dboodoofortune.bsky.social's poem, "The Sonographer's Report": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/the-sonographers-report22 Apr 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3prcxi722ohttps://bsky.app/profile/literarymama.bsky.social/post/3mjyw77nesc27"I was making it up as I went along. I had no plan. I was only faking it." - from @alisoncolwell.bsky.social's literary reflection, "The Patchwork Quilt: Piecing an Identity Together": https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2026/03/the-patchwork-quilt-piecing-an-identity-together21 Apr 2026 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:nsl3w4ftlbqugi5e7zrepjg2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyw77nesc27