HAND ME DOWN
Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1712-3444
Date Available
1-1-3000
Year of Publication
2025
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
English
Faculty
Shauna Morgan
Faculty
Crystal Wilkinson
Faculty
Julia Johnson
Abstract
Hand Me Down is a collection of poetry and visual art by Meg Whelan. This thesis examines how trauma is an act of fracture and how poesis is an act of holding the pieces. This work thematically explores grief, challenges religion, documents sexual violence, reckons with intergenerational abuse, witnesses queer discovery, and upholds a healing love. Hand Me Down is an effort to understand what has been handed down to the poet, how she has been handed down, what her hands might do with what they hold, and what she might hand down in her lifetime.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2025.139
Funding Information
This project was supported by the Division of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Kentucky from 2023-2025.
Recommended Citation
Whelan, Meg, "HAND ME DOWN" (2025). Theses and Dissertations--English. 180.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/180
