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Saeed Jones published a book of poems, Prelude To Bruise. Over at Buzzfeed, he’ll tell you why he wrote them, too:
...more“My mother had a fatal heart attack the night before Mother’s Day in 2011. The experience of losing her broke me down.
Every holiday has its parallel griefs, as much for what isn’t present as for what is. In the New Yorker, Ruth Margalit writes beautifully about experiencing Mother’s Day, after her mother is gone:
...moreMeghan O’Rourke has a wonderful word for the club of those without mothers.
Happy Mother’s Day. And a big hug to Dawn Cave, the mother who gave us the King of The Bad Seeds.
Thank you, Dawn, and thank you, Calliope. Calli-a-who?
Calliope was the mother of the greatest musician of all time, Orpheus.
...moreWe hope you were so busy taking your mamas out to brunch and showering them with love and appreciation that you simply had no time for The Rumpus this weekend.
We celebrated Mother’s Day with two very different interviews that ended up being the same in many ways.
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“Back when my son was three I took him to Downtown Brooklyn. He pointed to a sign, and said ‘The – King’s – Store.’ I had no idea he could read.”
Artists Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton spoke with moms on the streets of Brooklyn, gathering the “memorable moments of their motherhood.”
...moreAt Ebony, Saeed Jones reflects on the vastness of grief as the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death approaches.
“Now, though I sometimes cry, I more often feel a sense of awe at the depth of my connection to my mother.
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