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Philip Booth
Poetry

Philip Booth – First Lesson

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

A father teaches his daughter the art of buoyancy and incants a blessing for her survival.

Tagged Advice, blessing, Children, love, parenthood1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Katie Bowers – Even Though I Am Weary of Church Pews, She Is Not

August 15, 2021August 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Written during the peak of the pandemic, Katie Bowers' poem touches on the challenges of faith and belief, parenting and childhood.

Tagged Belief, blessing, chakra, childhood, Children, faith, innocence, openness, parenthood, piousness, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality1 Comment
Maggie Smith
Poetry

Maggie Smith – Good Bones

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Maggie Smith's beautiful and poignant poem about the how to parent and teach beauty to our children.

Tagged Advice, Children, life, love, motherhood1 Comment
All About Love

Three-Pack as Another Name for Beauty

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOCELYN ULEVICUS An errand for her dying mother takes a daughter shopping for underwear.

Tagged Children, Death, hospital, love, mother, parenthood1 Comment
Lori Rottenberg
Featured Poetry

Lori Rottenberg – Heresy

March 7, 2021March 6, 2021 Vanessa Able

Lori Rottenberg wrote her poem, Heresy, when her children were young and she was a stay-at-home mom.

Tagged Children, faith, marriage, parenting, partnership, Relationships, religionLeave a comment
Book of the Month, Book Review

The Landscape of Loss – Liz Tichenor’s ‘The Night Lake’

January 22, 2021January 29, 2021 Vanessa Able

How to continue in the world after losing a child? Young mother and priest Liz Tichenor charts the journey of her own bereavement.

Tagged Children, grief, loss, motherhood2 Comments
Liz Tichenor
Interview

Embodying Grief – A Conversation with Liz Tichenor

January 22, 2021June 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Author and priest Liz Tichenor talks about her book The Night Lake, about dealing with loss and what the topography of grief looks like after seven years.

Tagged Children, Death, grief, loss, motherhood, mourning, The Night Lake, vulnerability3 Comments
Natalia Ginzburg
Book Bits

Their Love of Life Should Never Weaken

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Pursuing our vocations and allowing our children the space to develop their own, are, according to Natalia Ginzburg, paramount in raising healthy children and developing healthy relationships with them as they grow.

Tagged Children, education, love of life, passion, Silence, Virtue, vocation1 Comment
Letters to my Unborn Daughter
All About Love

Letters to My Unborn Daughter

December 8, 2020December 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY KATHERINE LEE A woman unpacks the meaning of motherhood in a series of letters to her unborn and unnamed daughter.

Tagged Children, hope, love, motherhood, parenthoodLeave a comment
Gregory Pardlo
Poetry

Gregory Pardlo – Raisin

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

The anxieties of fatherhood and the tension of generational and racial dynamics weave through Gregory Pardlo's vibrant and dense poem, Raisin.

Tagged Children, Culture, Dreams, fatherhood, generation, Poetry, racial identity, upbringingLeave a comment

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