Poetry Reading: Jess Pulver

May You Step Forward is a collection of poems about the experience of being the mother of a child named Leo who has Cerebral Palsy. Set on New England hillsides, in pharmacies, hospitals, restaurants and cemeteries, the poems express the layering of guilt, frustration, grief, determination, fear and joy felt by both the poet and her son as they navigated the years of his childhood together.

Jess Pulver is a therapist, wife, and mother of three nestled in the woods outside Portland, Maine. Her poems and non-fiction essays have appeared in The Good Life Review, Waccamaw, Yalobusha Review, Griffel, Scapegoat Review, Literary Mama, The Examined Life, and Kaleidoscope.