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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His life story is that of an itinerant autodidact, with shades of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and Thomas Hardy's Jude. But Peter Street has defied decades of hardship and disability to become ...

Artwork by people with disabilities has provided the inspiration for 130 new West Australian poems. A unique exhibition has brought more than 50 Perth artists, most with complex disabilities, together ...

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 ...