The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood
by Maggie Smith, Brenda Shaughnessy, Natalie Shapero, Camille T. Dungy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sarah Blake, Sun Yung Shin, Rachel Zucker, Mahogany L. Browne, Monica Youn, Layli Long Soldier, Erika Meitner, Aracelis Girmay, Carrie Fountain, Joy Ladin, Carmen Giménez Smith, Chanda Feldman, Emily Pérez, Nancy Reddy, Diannely Antigua, Zeina Hashem Beck, Remica Bingham-Risher, Allison Blevins, Julie Carr, Sunu P. Chandy, Tina Chang, Victoria Chang, Nicole Cooley, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Laura Da’, Meg Day, Kendra Decolo, Emari Digiorgio, Chelsea Dingman, Alexa Doran, Carolina Ebeid, Heid Erdrich, Beth Fennelly, Krista Franklin, Shamala Gallagher, Sherine Gilmour, Jenn Givhan, Camille Guthrie, Lauren Haldeman, Pamela Hart, Faylita Hicks, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Joy Katz, Keetje Kuipers, Eugenia Leigh, Raina J. León, Shara Lessley, Kim-An Lieberman, Kwoya Fagin Maples, Joyelle Mcsweeney, Lynn Melnick, Jasminne Mendez, Clarissa Mendiola, Emily Mohn-Slate, Lisa L. Moore, Sara Mumolo, January Gill O’Neil, Emmy Pérez, Kiki Petrosino, Catherine Pierce, Khadijah Queen, Chelsea Rathburn, Jordan Rice, Megan Snyder-Camp, Molly Spencer, Melissa Stephenson, Alison Stine, Angela Narciso Torres, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Sarah Vap, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Hope Wabuke, Sasha West
The Long Devotion gathers poems from a wide range of contemporary voices writing about motherhood. Together, the collection explores devotion, identity, intimacy, labor, family, and change, offering a layered and expansive portrait of an experience that can be deeply personal, demanding, complicated, and transformative.
About This Book
The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood is a poetry collection centered on the many dimensions of motherhood.
Featuring work by a broad group of contemporary poets, the book presents varied voices and perspectives on family, identity, intimacy, and care.
These poems approach motherhood as a lived experience shaped by devotion, complexity, labor, memory, and change.
The collection offers readers an expansive literary conversation about what it means to mother and to be formed by motherhood.
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