Sheila Black is the co-editor of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011), an important anthology of poetry by people with disability. She talks with Eddie Ytuarte ...

In conjunction with the October issue of Health Affairs, which will focus on disability and health, the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is holding a poetry contest. The poetry contest will ...

Jersey City Theater Center continues to produce a wide array of content for the public to absorb during this strange and unusual summer. From poetry to discussions about oppression and identity, JCTC ...

In spring 2022, the more than 25 organizations nationwide that comprise the Poetry Coalition will launch “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice,” the coalition’s sixth annual ...

There are moments when one serves just as an observer, and others when you are both a participant observer, this is certainly one of those times. I was invited to speak at the Remarkable Tech Summit ...

The first day of poetry class, the young man had only one word to say to his new instructor Laurie Gilkenson: “Pizza.” What’s your name? “Pizza” What’s your favorite color? “Pizza.” When Gilkenson ...

For Kay Ulanday Barrett, poetry is a testimony to survival. Ulanday Barrett, who uses the pronouns "he," "they" and "K.," testifies to living at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities: ...

KOZHIKODE: Akhil Raj, 25, of Vadakara, has recently published his third anthology of poems notwithstanding the fact that he suffers from cerebral palsy. He has also given a script to director Sathyan ...

In her debut poetry collection, Therese Estacion shows what it means to bear witness to one's own pain and sexuality, to find catharsis and self-love, after a rare infection stole her limbs but not ...