Stories I'll Tell My Daughter
stories of motherhood, mythic women, and the power of language to connect us all
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Since my breast cancer diagnosis last winter, I’ve had a lot of time to think about the words I hope to pass down to my child. Was it serendipity or was it tempting fate to title this Substack “Stories I’ll Tell My Daughter” long before I knew just how important those stories might become? Over the past year, I’ve been working on a collection of poems that orbit themes of treatment, the universe, and the stories we tell each other to make sense of it all. In honor of National Daughter’s Day, I’m
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