Kennedy Wogan Essmiller

Just out here doing my best!
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MFA from Oklahoma State University
Academic Advisor

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@KatieMcMorris1 I will read it and tell you how much I love it!! As for helpful feedback, I'm not the best at poetry 😂

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"I never know what I'm going to write. I just know that I have something to write" - @RPMirabella #AWP23 #FamilyTreesintheEnchantedForest

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@gothratitude talks about "the way that objects become magical when you put them on the page" #AWP23 #FamilyTreesintheEnchantedForest

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@g_e_howard talks about the ghost or phantom that gives rise to the tale and how telling stories is often a way to make sense of the world/horror/trauma #AWP23 #FamilyTreesintheEnchantedForest

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"I wanted to explore how trouble carries on" - @RPMirabella #AWP23 #FamilyTreesintheEnchantedForest

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"Sisters are often heroes in fairy tales" - @RPMirabella #AWP23 #FamilyTreesintheEnchantedForest

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Why do we tell fairy tales again and again? @gothratitude comments that they articulate the taboo. They let us know we are not alone. If you know, you know. #AWP23 #FamilyTreesintheEnchantedForest

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"There's no way to establish your life the way you want it to be when someone else controls your body and your decisions" - @aliswisel #AWP23 #WritingLivesofRoeVWade

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"I'd seen enough of freedom to know that I wanted it" - @nsjamir11 #AWP23 #WritingLivesofRoeVWade

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@nsjamir11 reads from her essay about her mother and family, saying, "They understand what it means to have a body, to be a body." #AWP23 #WritingLivesofRoeVWade

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"There is violence in silence and there is violence in being silenced" - @putsata #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBpdy

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@putsata talks about this idea of an experience that your body remembers on a cellular level, like your bones remember even if we don't #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBody

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Love the fact that @kristenmillares had all of us practice saying the word "No" at #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBody

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"The dismissal and denial of women's bodies is perhaps the biggest erasure poem of all time" - @AnastaciaRenee5 #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBody

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"How many mothers have had to think about where to bury their babies?" - @putsata's words are incredibly powerful #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBody

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"I bear the burden of keep it pushing" - @AnastaciaRenee5 #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBody

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@AnastaciaRenee5 quotes and honors Ntozake Shange this morning at #ArchivesoftheBody #AWP23 "Where there is a woman, there is magic."

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So excited to start out my #AWP23 experience with #ArchivesoftheBody with @MichelleBowdler @putsata @AnastaciaRenee5 and @kristenmillares!!!

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"We all have these jagged edges, but writing in this way smooths them and allows us to hold them" - @kristenmillares #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBody

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@kristenmillares reads from her essay on cancer and birth, saying of the children, "They are teaching me to yield to joy" #AWP23 #ArchivesoftheBody