All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood

This anthology features the work of over 100 poets writing all the wonderful, wild, sorrowful, ecstatic, tragic, and joyful experiences that are contained by "motherhood."Twenty-five years ago when I began writing, poems about motherhood were still called “women’s poetry” and their practitioners “women poets.” How far we’ve come. Here is a fresh, powerful and varied new collection on motherhood—-one of the great subjects—-to remind us poetry about women’s lives is poetry. Period.—Kathleen Flenniken, author of Plume and FamousThe poems in this collection distill the moments, both large and small, that make up not only the “dailyness of mothering,” but the dailyness of life itself. Full of love and beauty, pain and humanity, these poems have the power to knit us back together when we are broken. This is a stunning collection, one I will return to again and again.—Kate Hopper, author of Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood and Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers