Egg money is money that women and men have been able to earn by their own enterprise, gaining along the way a sense of their own sufficiency, a little luxury that their regular work could not afford them.  As H. A. Nourse  and Twenty-Four Other Successful Poultrymen wrote in Egg Money: How to Increase It (1908), “…the equipment required is neither extensive nor costly….the main requirements are knowledge of how to conduct the business and willingness to attend faithfully to the work.”

We meet once a month in each other’s living rooms to drink a little wine, trip over each other’s cats, and discuss our understanding of each other’s poems, what they are and what they might become.  We also share resources with each other—information about readings we might want to attend together, publishing opportunities, books to read.  We help each other prepare manuscripts for publication and have gone on retreat together to work on chapbook manuscripts.  We are available to give readings, and some of us lead writing workshops.  In general, we seek to help each other explore our own voices, make our poems more of what they want to be, and explore the connections between poetry and the other arts.