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Merle Haggard released "Mama Tried," that twangy country song about defying the expectations of Mama, in 1968. 45 years later and the song still resonates with southern gents and rebels alike. (Read More)

While helping curate and build the Music Box shantytown in the Ninth Ward over a year ago, artists Theo Eliezer and Micah Learned devised a new art and literary magazine that would take its inspiration from men’s lifestyle magazines from the 60’s and 70’s, but distill the classically cool and intuitively interesting from the schlock and dated stereotypes. The result is Momma Tried, a self-described “conceptual nudie mag” that is about to run off the print rollers and onto your naked coffee table. (Read More)

As all of you know by now, Momma Tried is going to exist as a print-only publication, and as this is so central to our concept, we’ve put a lot of time and thought into what the actual physical object will be like. One of our main goals in starting... (Read More)

These days we’re splitting our time with Momma Tried between making sure we reach our Kickstarter goals (talking about it to everyone we know, reaching out to blogs, acting like we know how to use Twitter) and finishing the layout for the first... (Read More)

For the past year my partner Micah and I have been working on creating a new conceptual magazine called Momma Tried. Both long term New Orleanians (he was born in Opelousas LA, I moved here in 1998), our vision is to bring together a print-only publication that is equal parts literary journal, art magazine, and non-heteronormative nudie mag; a new platform to showcase the talents and perspective of our community. (Read More)

In addition to creating reoccurring columns, one of our main objectives has been to build an impressive collection of featured writings for the magazine. For our first issue we have an outstanding group of authors that have contributed work ranging... (Read More)

Developing the collection of art and writing for our first issue of Momma Tried has been deeply gratifying, and as is standard for any literary journal or art magazine, we’ve spent countless hours reviewing submissions, editing articles, and... (Read More)

The most rewarding and inspiring aspect of creating Momma Tried has been the opportunity to collaborate with so many fantastic people and to be a part of the spirit of camaraderie around this project. One of the most daunting undertakings of the past... (Read More)