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Motherhood
The Coil
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The Coil
Oct 29, 2020
Lot’s Wife
Poem by Tani Arness
Genesis Ch. 19; Luke 17:32
In the Bible, Lot’s wife is never named, though in…
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Emm Ess
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The Coil
Apr 12, 2019
Wisdom
Melanie S. Smith struggles with the trauma and pragmatism of terminal illness after finding a…
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Coil Excerpts
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Mar 28, 2019
Intruder: An Excerpt from ‘Forget You Know Me’
Fiction by Jessica Strawser
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Coil Poetry
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Nov 24, 2018
A Mother’s Mantra
Poem by Rebecca Schumejda
For Liz Graziano
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Laura Citino
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Jul 3, 2018
The Only Woman You Can Truly Know: On Desiree Cooper’s ‘Know the Mother’
Cooper’s stories of womanhood…
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The Coil
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The Coil
Jul 2, 2018
Estimated Losses
Poem by Aleathia Drehmer
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Surmayi Khatana
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Nov 15, 2017
On Anna Prushinskaya’s ‘A Woman Is a Woman until She Is a Mother’
Prushinskaya’s essays are an…
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Melissa Grunow
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Aug 7, 2017
On Lori Jakiela’s ‘Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe’
Jakiela reflects on biological vs. adopted…
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The Coil
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May 15, 2017
What Looks Like/Does Not Look Like Writing
Caroline Klocksiem talks about mothering and writing in the…
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Leah Angstman
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The Coil
Jun 26, 2016
On Rebecca Schumejda’s ‘Falling Forward’
Rebecca Schumejda’s poems are a salute to the married woman…
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