Full Belly

Full Belly: Poems is a throat-punching, heart-grasping poetic journey into the dark underworld of the feminine experience. Featuring viral poem "What I Would Tell Eve", this second chapbook from poet Maegen McAuliffe O'Leary explores womanhood as a ceaseless battle for sovereignty. McAuliffe O'Leary's ferocious pacing and confessional style rip through the pages, with self-reflective poems on the symbiotic dance between the sacred and the profane, as played out across gut-churning cycles of birth, death, and rebirth. Full Belly: Poems is a relentless quest for creative regeneration that will leave its readers "with a full belly / knowing more than God". Poetry for real life, in real life. Maegen McAuliffe O'Leary is a poet and mother from the Pacific Northwest. Her work focuses on the contemporary human experience as it intersects feminism, matrimony, motherhood, magic, creative expression, and the human body and its place in nature. She is the author of Bodies to Bury the Hunger (Bottlecap Press, 2022), Full Belly: Poems (The Finished Project, 2024), Richest Bastard in the Poorhouse: Poems for the Proletariat (The Finished Project, 2025), and Stuffed: Love Poems for Assholes (The Finished Project, 2025).

McAuliffe O'Leary is the founder of The Finished Project, a creative communications company inspired by the sacred feminine forces of creativity, courage, compassion, and communication. The Finished Project supports living artists and women-owned, small business through an online retail platform that promotes poetry for real life, in real life. Visit TheFinishedProject.org to learn more.