LULU "The bold past sashed with light" / Lucile Adler --
Blue dress / Andrea Barrett --
As if I am you / Meg Belichick --
Untitled / Anne Bernays --
My dear Republican mother / Carol Bly --
Standing in two places / Sally Ryder Brady --
The horoscope promises me a mother's gift / Jill Breckenridge --
Untitled / Rita Mae Brown --
A natural gift / Rosellen Brown --
Thicker than blood / Elizabeth Brundage --
Ordinary gifts / Lillian Castillo-Speed --
Querida Mami / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
Dear Mama : words having failed / Wanda Coleman --
Letters to Mama from Cottonwood / Lynn Doiron --
Little song for my mother / Rita Dove --
I'm the mother / Tess Enroth --
If only / Connie May Fowler --
The way things go / Joan Frank --
Call home / Lynn Freed --
A secret gladness / Carol Frost --
Boxes / Deborah Galyan --
Unnaming the flowers / Sonia Gernes --
Untitled / Ellen Gilchrist --
Untitled / Natalie Goldberg --
Untitled / Susan Griffin --
Rotten mothers / Jan Haag --
Loving dogwood / Joan Joffe Hall --
Untitled / Phebe Hanson --
The immensity of your gift / Joy Harjo --
Something ordinary / Mary Hebert --
And yet you will weep and know why / Kathryn Hohlwein --
Sylvia on Sunday / Nicole Hollander --
At my table / Ann Hood --
Your old torch songs / Pam Houston --
White moths / Laura Kasischke --
To my mother on her seventy-sixth birthday / Susan Kelley-DeWitt --
Untitled / Barbara Kingsolver --
Alone in Heaven / Clysta Kinstler --
Untitled / Carolyn Kizer --
A crown of sonnets, in memory of my mother / Maxine Kumin --
Out of silence / Anne D. LeClaire --
To Elynore / Suzanne Lipsett --
Writing Eva / Margot Livesey --
The bird and the rose / Mary Mackey --
Looking back in wonder / Njoki McElroy --
To my mother / Sandra McPherson --
Untitled / Joanne Meschery --
Lively in her soul / Mary Moore --
Every mother knows a coyote / Nora Naranjo-Morse --
Everything you said, stayed / Naomi Shihab Nye --
A letter to my mother Carolina Oates on her 78th birthday / Joyce Carol Oates --
Time left / Carole Simmons Oles --
Notes to my mother / Linda Pastan --
Voices after dark / Marge Piercy --
A love story / Dawn Raffel --
Missed / Jane Reavill Ransom --
Between the lines / Linda Raymond --
To my mother / Annie Reiner --
Untitled / Lynne Sharon Schwartz --
Untitled / Carolyn See --
Untitled / Ntozake Shange --
Mother, I am listening / Dani Shapiro --
How your life fascinated me / Carol Shields --
Vigil without words / Enid Shomer --
Supper alone / Louise Farmer Smith --
My vocation / Donna Baier Stein --
Not skin deep - heart deep / Susan Straight --
Letter from Hilo / Joan Swift --
The impossibly good mother / Shari Thurber --
Madre de mi alma / Alma Luz Villanueva --
My hang-up / Joyce Wadler --
Where'd you come from? / Constance Warlow --
Everything I know / Lynna Williams --
The oldest orphan in America / Hilma Wolitzer --
This should've been your trip / Irene Zabytko --
I grudge you the mothertalk / Mary Zeppa --
For the time being / Feenie Ziner.
