Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me! It must be my birthday month because I have a second publication in April. This one is in a literary journal called The Mom Egg. As you might have guessed from the title, The Mom Egg is a “print literary journal of poetry, fiction, creative prose and art by mothers about everything and by everyone about mothers and motherhood. The Mom Egg’s mission is to expand the conversation to include varied perspectives by and of mothers, and to increase opportunities for mothers, women and artists.”

The theme of The Mom Egg, Issue 11 is Mother Tongue. They invited submissions that took a broad interpretation, so I sent them a piece called, “Waiting for Words,” which deals with what it’s like to parent a child with a profound speech delay. Careful readers of my blog will recognize scenes and snippets of dialogue from several of my earlier posts. I haven’t seen an actual copy of Mother Tongue yet, but you can order one on The Mom Egg website.

If you live on the East Coast (or happen to be there next weekend) The Mom Egg is hosting a release party/reading in New York City on Sunday, April 21st, 2013 at 6 p.m. at Le Poisson Rouge (in the Gallery), 158 Bleecker Street, NYC. Admission is free. Many of the contributors are reading, so I’m sure it will be a terrific event. I’m disappointed that I can’t attend. If you go, tell me how it was!

As always, I am deeply grateful to The Mom Egg and Half-Shell Press for publishing my work and getting it out into the world for others to read.

Until next time,
Cynthia Patton