A Mother(hood)fucking Arsenal of Poetry: An Introduction 1
1. A Contrapuntal Mother – Ghada Alatrash, PhD 2
2. A Maternal Rumination on Michelle Browne’s Unrequited Love II (2023) – Kate Antosik-Parsons 5
3. Mourning My Grandmother – Kate Antosik-Parsons 7
4. Mothers Write – Victoria Bailey 8
5. a fairy mothermother – Victoria Bailey 9
6. A Life Ajar – Victoria Bailey 10
7. One More – Victoria Bailey 11
8. How Are You? – Victoria Bailey 12
9. They Who Do Not Know Mothers – Victoria Bailey 13
10. found – Victoria Bailey 14
11. I Am The River – Renée E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard 15
12. Matriarchal Mornings – Renée E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard 19
13. Ondaadiziikewin – Birth – Renée E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard 22
14. Wandering Placenta – Laura Bissell 23
15. forced together in a violent embrace – Laura Bissell 25
16. Confessions to an almost five-year-old – Laura Bissell 26
17. The Trembling – Laura Bissell 27
18. white noise – Laura Bissell 28
19. Motherhood – Angela Bosco 29
20. In Vino Veritas: A Collection of Found Poems as Toasts to Mothers
– Lauren E. Burrow 30
21. Birthday – Guinevere Clark 32
22. Matryoshka – Guinevere Clark 35
23. To the Virtual Father – Guinevere Clark 37
24. Mad Woman in the Attic – Guinevere Clark 39
25. King Mattress – Guinevere Clark 41
26. Perspectives – Kimberly Dark 43
27. Mothering, As Collective Experience – Sara Evelyne 44
28. Dear Strong Mamas – Sara Evelyne 45
29. Momming + Tech – Hannah Feiner 46
30. Attachment – Victoria Feth 47
31. Branches – Victoria Feth 49
32. On Mother’s Day – Rosita Georgieva 51
33. Old Photograph – Diana L. Haleman 52
34. “I never noticed my mother was white, because she always told me that I was black.”
– Sonja M. Harris 53
35. In the Teeth – Annabel Howard 55
36. Reclamation – Annabel Howard 57
37. I miss my body from when it was my body (alone) – Patricia Hull 59
38. Our Bodies/Ourselves – Adrianne Kalfopoulou 60
39. Never So Alone – Elin Karlsson 62
40. Winter Baby – Elin Karlsson 63
41. Kin – Crystal Aisha Kerr | Isis Oya 64
42. Resistance and Surrender – Crystal Aisha Kerr | Isis Oya 65
43. Creation Myth – Lisa Ludden Perry 66
44. Mothers’ Concerto – Lisa Ludden Perry 68
45. At Three – Lisa Ludden Perry 70
46. Alive (2) – Lisa Ludden Perry 71
47. Is there life on Mars? – Alice Mahoney 72
48. M/other shadows – Alice Mahoney 73
49. The Fairytale Mother – Vanessa Marr 74
50. Empty Nest – Vanessa Marr 75
51. Teenage mum at the school gates – Vanessa Marr 76
52. Thimble Child – Vanessa Marr 77
53. Silence – Vanessa Marr 78
54. Broken Hearted – Vanessa Marr 79
55. Persephone – Dr Jess Moriarty 80
56. Another Mother – Dr Kusumita Mukherjee Debnath 84
57. Her Product – Dr Kusumita Mukherjee Debnath 86
58. The Digital Sea– Dr Kusumita Mukherjee Debnath 88
59. A Teen’s Mom– Dr Kusumita Mukherjee Debnath 90
60. Possible – Hannah Neufeld 91
61. Fertility/Endometriosis – Caterina Pan 92
62. Maternity Failed – Caterina Pan 93
63. Milk – Caterina Pan 94
64. M-other – Caterina Pan 95
65. Ever Torn – Caterina Pan 96
66. Hold On – Caterina Pan 97
67. F*ck – A Family Retrospective – Michelann Parr 98
68. M/other – Michelann Parr 100
69. Matricentric Artist and Activist – Michelann Parr 101
70. Just Breathe – Michelann Parr 102
71. Umbilical and (Un)Tethered – Michelann Parr 104
72. At-One-Ment – Michelann Parr 105
73. unbearable fear of being – Lorinda Peterson 106
74. welfare m/others – Lorinda Peterson 107
75. a day with my daughter – Lorinda Peterson 108
76. Immunization Day – Mackenzie Petursson 109
77. That Other Fucking Mitten – Mackenzie Petursson 110
78. Belly Button – Mackenzie Petursson 111
79. The First Sea – Cassie Premo Steele 112
80. What I cannot tell you – Cassie Premo Steele 113
81. Becoming mother in academia: a theoretical poem – Fabiane Ramos 114
82. the line – Tracy Royce 121
83. The Episiotomy Epistemology: A Letter to the Husband Stitch and Other Forceps Fortunes
– S. 123
84. Motherhood – Robin Silbergleid 124
85. When They Go to Israel, My Teenager Comes Home with Pictures of Feral Cats
– Robin Silbergleid 125
86. Ode to My Hands-Free Pumping Bra – Robin Silbergleid 126
87. The Poem As a Child in the Grocery Store – Robin Silbergleid 127
88. Inheritance – Tanya Stewart 128
89. Oppressive Nascence, The Nascence of Oppression – Marybeth White 129
A Mother(hood)fucking Arsenal of Poetry: An Afterword(s) 130
Notes on Contributors

Dr. Victoria Bailey is a feminist artist-scholar whose writing ranges from creative to academic realms. She has a PhD in Creative Writing, a Master’s in Women’s Studies, and her work has been included in a wide variety of mostly feminist-focused publications. She is also coeditor, along with Dr. Andrea O’Reilly and Dr. Fiona Joy Green, of Coming Into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism (Demeter Press, 2023), Revolutionizing Motherlines (Demeter Press, due 2026), and Mother Outlaws: The Undoing of Patriarchal Motherhood in Honour of the 50th Anniversary of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born (Demeter Press, publication date TBD).