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English With Teacher Kesa

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Dr. Maya Angelou said that there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of yourself.

As a reading and writing teacher, I believe in teaching stories.

I believe in teaching students to share them.

I believe in teaching them to speak.

I believe it is valuable for them to have the chance to see my authentic voice as a writer in the real world presented in these posts. That is, after all, the purpose of writing—to share it with an audience. To speak. To tell a story like only you can.

This is what it looks like when MnikesaSpeaks.

(Photo by: Rachel Liu-Ballard)

Up (7/30)

April 20, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

They say that the trees

are like lungs--

the branches reaching up

like the interstitial rungs

Interrogration (6/30)

April 19, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

is there a cure?

wait, are you sure?

what is it called again?

can I catch it too?

and you're positive

there's no more doing

for the doctors to do?

Panther (4/30)

April 16, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

there is a panther.

it is night.

Rivers (3/30)

April 10, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

after so

many months

of chemo

your uterus will

begin to cry

bloody tears.

Flicker (2/30)

April 9, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

I find that I write poetry

in my sleep.

it keeps

seeping

in

Super. (1/30)

April 8, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

if God granted gifts

of superpowers

i'd ask for

the laying on of hands

dead language

March 28, 2016 Mnikesa Whitaker

P e r f o r m i n g with Katie Chastain | | NYC | | 2008

Sometimes

when

i cannot find

language

limber enough

This is what it looks like when MnikesaSpeaks.