Matriarch: Meditations on Motherhood

Mother. Matriarch. Mourner. Maker.

This is a book for all of them, and all of us.

Matriarch: Meditations on Motherhood gathers voices from across the spectrum of maternal experience, celebrating its beauty, complexity, and ache. Featuring original poetry, prose, and visual art from more than 30 contributors across Colorado and Wyoming, this collection offers a moving tribute to the many forms of motherhood and the emotions that define it.

Whether you are a mother, hope to become one, or are grieving what was or might have been, this book invites you into a shared space of tenderness and truth. These pages speak to birth and loss, legacy and longing, fierce love and quiet sorrow. With work from both emerging and established writers and artists, including those navigating infertility, separation, and grief, Matriarch refuses to flatten motherhood into a single narrative.

This intimate and evocative chapbook from Twenty Bellows honors the full, messy spectrum of the maternal experience. It is a gathering, a reckoning, and a hymn.

It is for mothers of every kind.