Advice to the Able-Bodied Poet Entering the Disability Poetics… Let's just save time—Yes I have seen Rain Man, The Miracle Worker, My Left Foot, or, more recently, The Theory of Everything1 What you really need to know will come up in the poems. Similarly, if you ...

THIS!!! #disabled #disabledpoetry
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Invisible Woman, Dancing I came as a ghost to the party,

Constance Merritt everybody! #DisabledPoetry
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Robin Riley's quote from We Are The Winter People - Robin Riley's BookWyrm Social Reading and Reviewing

Spring by Jenny Rowbory

Winter is all around
but in this glade
there is no ice or snow;
warm sunlight bathes us.
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Robin Riley's quote from Tonguebreaker - Robin Riley's BookWyrm Social Reading and Reviewing

Bed days by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

[...]
Sometimes I lie in bed on a pain day with my sick and disabled friends
a finger swipe away, my twin canes,
my partner who loves me
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Another new audience tonight with Sickos: A Queer Crip Open Mic. First ever queer open mic night that I have attended.

Reading about speaking my truth, my secret porn, not a phase and hidden in this survivor.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #queerpoet #queerpoetry #disabledpoet #disabledpoetry #transpoet