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What began as a Women's History Month celebration became a deep practice of awareness of female expression, agency, and self-knowledge for poet Mary Silwance. The culmination is the shared voices of over sixty poets who share their underrepresented experiences of women's embodied poetry. Their candid and profound poems shed light, widen awareness, and create space for those who identify as female. Here is a fem-centric collection of poetry, prose, and visual art to honor women's experiences, geographies, and conversations in which women live, move, and have their being. Here, you'll find what's been silenced and explore what's been censored. From menarche to menopause, first kiss to last night, from preterm to pronouns to pretend to portend. Here is the most tender, wildest, most awkward, funniest, scariest, transcendent, saddest, and most satisfying. These poets address the inadequate, imprecise representation of women's embodiment, which has been appropriated or disregarded in popular culture, public policy, and societal assumptions. Here are the significant and quotidian details in their own voices, of their own accord.

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Born in Egypt, Mary Silwance lives in Kansas City and is the mother of three daughters. She has been an English teacher, Farm-to-School Coordinator, environmental educator, farmhand, and adjunct writing and EAL instructor. Mary provides writing workshops, is on the editorial team of Kansas City Voices, and is the 2023 Poetry Editor-in-Residence for Flying Ketchup Press. She is co-editor of the Room of One's Own anthology, a retelling of women's experiences, and co-creator of Poetry Jam. Mary explores ecology from an intersection of justice and spirituality in workshops and writing. Find her work, chapbooks, radio, zooms, and workshop offerings at marysilwance.com.

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