PMS poemmemoirstory 9 is out now and waiting in a bookstore near you!

This fierce issue of PMS poemmemoirstory features the talent of writers Re’Lynn Hansen, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Irene Lathem, Ashley McWaters, Paula W. Peterson, Liz Robbins, Renée Ruderman, Leah Stewart, Jean Valentine, and Tiphanie Yanique, among others. Each issue of PMS includes a memoir written by a woman who has experienced a historically signicant event. PMS 9 features Ugandan writer Beatrice Lawanda’s memoir, “The Market Vendor,” which vividly recounts how a Lord’s Resistance Army rebel attack made a simple trip to the market a hazardous venture.

table of contents • read Ashley McWaters’ poem “Spell Against Drowning” • an excerpt from Re’Lynn Hansen’s memoir “To Famous Cases of Syphilis” • an excerpt from Leah Stewart’s forthcoming novel The Responsible One