“Gatherer’s Blog” is an invited feature that provides emergent as well as seasoned writers with opportunities to reflect upon aspects of their own writing processes. Mutant Mother Missives & Musings: From a “Burning Question” to the Micro Mutant (Memoir) Postcard Project and Beyond Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri Micro Mutant Postcard #255 (listen to the poem, read… Continue Reading Gatherer’s Blog – Summer 2024
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Poetry – Summer 2024
Poetry in this issue: Shanan Ballam, Digging; why; the stroke Robert Beveridge, The Blossoms Are Out Angele Ellis, Neurodivergent Memories; Olentangy Noah Fischbach, 4 a.m. Lucy Hurst, Hard Times Raymond Luczak, EARS OF SHAME ’78 Phillip Muldoon, Mental Health Clark A. Pomerleau, The Community Center; Yahrzeit Nancy Scott, A Jar of Seashells Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri, Micro… Continue Reading Poetry – Summer 2024
Essays – Summer 2024
Essays in this issue: Megan Giller, Dead Author Birthday Party Carly Pedersen, Eyeballs Rachael A, Zubal-Ruggieri, How X-Men’s Beast is My Kindred Spirit, Or How I Really Need to Reclaim Blue Wordgathering is open to work that makes a contribution to disability literature. A maximum of two essays may be submitted during each reading period.… Continue Reading Essays – Summer 2024
Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! (Cait Gordon)
Reviewed by Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri Content warning: Brief mention of the Covid pandemic and its repercussions. On Cait Gordon’s website, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! is described as “a disability-hopepunk space opera series.” Iris and the Crew takes place in a unified “galactic network…where space is accessible…” (“Season One” website). “Disabled”… Continue Reading Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! (Cait Gordon)
Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World (Beth A. Haller)
Reviewed by Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri As a Disability Studies scholar and purveyor of multiple forms of popular media, I was pleased to discover the publication of Beth A. Haller’s new text, Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World. This Open Access book is one of the latest in the “Routledge Research in… Continue Reading Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World (Beth A. Haller)
Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes (eds. Emily Gillespie and Jennifer Lee Rossman)
Reviewed by Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri When I learned a new anthology containing Disabled superheroes had been published, I knew I had to review the volume. I’ll admit that my eagerness was…mighty (pun intended). The description for Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes tells the reader all they need to know, right? The description reads: “All… Continue Reading Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes (eds. Emily Gillespie and Jennifer Lee Rossman)
Volume 17, Issue 2s – Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement – Spring 2024
Esteemed Readers: The Wordgathering team has had so many requests for book reviews, we decided earlier this year to create a “book reviews supplement.” Designated as Volume 17, Issue 2s (“s” for “supplement”), this late Spring 2024 collection of eight book reviews and review essays is otherwise known as “Issue 66b.” The supplement’s reviews were… Continue Reading Volume 17, Issue 2s – Book Reviews and Review Essays Special Supplement – Spring 2024
Volume 18, Issue 1 – Summer 2024
Welcome to the Summer 2024 issue of Wordgathering. “Issue 67” marks the beginning of the 18th volume of the journal. This issue of Wordgathering is dedicated to the incomparable, funny, and badass crip poet, Kathi Wolfe. May her memory be for a blessing and a revolution, and may she rest in power and peace. A… Continue Reading Volume 18, Issue 1 – Summer 2024
Volume 17, Issue 2 – Winter 2023-2024
Editor’s Note / Content Warning: Subjects referenced include racism, war, oppression, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, disablement, murder, death, loss, grief, and mourning. Welcome to the Winter 2023-2024 issue of Wordgathering. This issue is manifesting much later than I and others had planned originally. Thank you for your patience. Recently endured personal losses and illness, grief anniversaries, an… Continue Reading Volume 17, Issue 2 – Winter 2023-2024
Poetry – Summer 2023
Poetry in this issue: Karen “KC” Christie, POETRY; HOPE; GRIEF Yariel Luna, Brutus Makena Metz, The MRI Machine is Like a Toaster Nicholas S. Racheotes, Canes; Subzero Angel Rosen, My Therapist Begs Me to Consider the Difference Between Collecting and Hoarding; In Wellness; We Need to Have a Talk Sayantani Roy, Uprooted; Tryst Jess Silfa,… Continue Reading Poetry – Summer 2023