annihilation
on fate, change, and awaiting birth at 37 weeks pregnant
my candle burns
essays on motherhood, life at home, writing, publishing, and more by poet amy bornman – plus small press process + zines by mail! Read my books: BROKEN WATERS, HOW TO SEW CLOTHES, + THERE IS A FUTURE.
Latest episodes
the third trimester
the longest shortest weirdest greatest most dramatic time
the underworld
thoughts on birth as I approach it for the third time
the stuff of our life
what I'm planning to use for our third baby's first six months
great litany
on pregnancy anxiety, deconstruction, great mother, and message boards
gestation
and the quiet satisfaction of what we carry around within
quickening
freewrites at sixteen weeks pregnant
pregnancy as opportunity
nine special lessons offered to us in pregnancy's particularity
the first trimester
on pregnancy for the third time
keepers
my favorite books I read this year
the manuscript, pt. 2
on wanting your book to be published, magic doors, and almost giving up
favorite things
not a gift guide!
a poetics of birth
virtual writing workshop coming on November 22nd
loose strands
knitting sweaters / revisiting dormant projects
holding and being held
co-regulation in trying times, and the great cosmic family
the family bed
on mutual benefit, attunement in parenthood, and feeling your way through big family choices
labyrinth
no wrong turns / plus an assortment of recs
weaningzine
writing and publishing from motherhood's tenderest thresholds
life of dreams
mother's day, inscrutability, negative test, joy
difficult weather
imagining the worlds that continue within collapse -- a bunch of book recs