Wordgathering

A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

Volume 7     Issue 2     June 2013

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Below is an alphabetical list of all of the poets who have been published in Wordgathering, including the names of their poems and the issue in which they were published indicated by the month (March, June, September, December) and last two digits of the year. These are followed by lists of the book reviews, essays, interviews, fiction, photography, book excerpts, drama and reading loops, that have been published. An asterisk (*) next to a poets name indicates that he or she has been published in one of these others genres in addition to poetry.

Poetry

  • Millicent Borges Accardi*, The Body Music of Thalidomide (M07); Music Remembered from the Womb; He Talks of Guns; Why Not Irish (J11)
  • Saundra Adams, Weeds (M11)
  • Indira Allegra, Withdrawal from Paxil into June (M07); Seasonal Affective Disorder (J08); Anointed (M08)
  • Natalie Altman, I'd Rather Be Bi-Coastal (M08)
  • Judi Brannan Armbruster, FMS; Klamath River Meditation (M11)
  • Katie Aubrecht, Science of Spirit Writing; Madnesss Transpired (M12)
  • Peter Austin, In the Glass; The Perfect Child (J07)
  • Trish Ayer*, The Cradle (D07)
  • Barbara Baldwin, The German Version (S11)
  • Glenda Barrett, Family Ties (J07); Four Poems (M10)
  • Jennifer Bartlett*, A Field Guide to the Body (S07); from Autobiography (J11); Field Guide to the Body (D12)
  • Michael Basile , Laundry Room Enigma; Precious Few (D09)
  • Jeanette Beale, Untitled Insomnia; Aftershocks (D08)
  • Mandy Beattie, Take My Hand; Cotton Wool (S09); Your Looks Belie You (D09); Be Still (D10)
  • Greg Beatty, Fishing from a Wheelchair (M11)
  • Dominika Bednarska, Cripple; My Friend Paul Says (M11)
  • Jim Bell, Waist High (J11)
  • Linda Beninghoff*, Winter; When the Roads Cry Out (M11); St. Paul St.; Springime in the City (J11); To Margaret (D11)
  • Mike Berger, Adaptation (J10); Peggy (12)
  • Cathy Best, Untitled (S08)
  • Sheila Black*, What You Mourn (M07); Epic (M10); Las Dos Fridas (S10); Psalm; How it Might have Happened (D10); To Avalon; The Ashes (M12)
  • Ann Bogle* Basil Distance (M10)
  • Richard Boughton, Lost in Thought; Fate; Time (J08); Branch and Vine; The Season (D08)
  • Maria Brady-Smith, Invisible Tiger (J07)
  • Suzanne Bratcher, Gardening in MS (S08)
  • Susan Buchanan, A Bright Green Path (D11)
  • Michelle Y. Burke, Delicate; Show Horse (S11)
  • Mark Burnhope*, To My Familar Quequeeg; The Ideal Bed; The Church, the House and Fisherman's Walk (M13)
  • Jimmy Burns*, Scrap Man; Exit Tune; Continuation of the Day (D09); Released; Grandma's Lincoln; Other Bloc (J10) Duel; Waiting for Repair of Electric Wheelchair (S10); The Darkness; Down/Up (D10); A Jar of Pickles; After a Neighbor Passes (M11); Stretch; Fall Vignettes (D11); Teacher; Winter[2]; Diction of Disability (J12)
  • Ann M. Carson, Bigger Than Expected (D10); Lung Percussion; Home-Going Drama; Lantern for the Dark (J13)
  • Rebecca Carter, Moribund (J08)
  • Ron Cervero, Psych (S08)
  • C. E. Chaffin*, Too Many Voices; About the Bracelet (S08); Pantoum on Jack London's "To Build a Fire" (M09); Up late With My Haring Impaired Love; To His Love Asleep (J09)
  • Deborah Chenault-Green, No More Tears (J08)
  • Mbizo Chirasha, Scorpion rhythm of My Sting (J10)
  • Lisa J. Cihlar, A Cherry Tree; You and I Washing the Dog at Midnight (S08); Bone (D08); Sitting in the Chari Waiting for My Father at the Salvage yard; Learning Long Division (J12)
  • John Lee Clark*, The Only Way Signing Can Kill Us (J09); On My Return from a Business Trip (J10); The Bully (M12); It IS Necessary (D12)
  • John Thomas Clark*, Man Overboard; The Wicker Man; Take it Away (D07); Bogman; Out of Touch (M08)
  • Laurie Clemens*, The Doctor Said a Domestic Hobby isTherapeutic; N to the Zero Power (D10)
  • Tyrone Cobb, Broken Mirror; Limitations (M13)
  • Anita Cohen, The Last Time (J08)
  • Bob Coley, Jr., The hard steel rails... (S08)
  • Ned Condini, In the Farmer's Hut (S07)
  • Cheryl Conway, You Look So Good (M08)
  • Nina Corwin, Ligamentary, my dear; 86 (de-generate) (D10)
  • Linda A. Cronin*, In the Beginning (D07); Dream Bones; Flash Essay on Beauty; Jersey Girl (M08); Fifth Grade Division; Memories (M09); Like Feathers, Like Wings (S11)
  • Barbara Crooker*, Listening to the Mockingbird (M07); The Mother of a Disabled Child Dreams of Respite (D07); The Knot Garden; Les Effets De Deige; Blues for Karen (M10); 45s, LPs (J10); Simile (S10); Frida Kahlo Speaks (D10); We Are Living in Magritte Weather; Strewn (M11); It Was Like This (S11); It Was Like This (J12)
  • Peter Daniels, New Creation; Down and Up (S12)
  • Kareen Liez E. Datoy, Feel Marcello (S08)
  • Mary Krane Derr, Special Education; Umpteenth PunctureWeeds (S12)
  • Arturo Desimone, Biology Class in Aruba; Field (S12)
  • Amber DiPietra*, Stretch; reservoir for oculus sisnister (M12)
  • Aleksandra Djordjevic, Loves Androgynous; Poetic Countenance (S11); Like a Hyacinth (M12)
  • Liz Dolan, A Half a Block Behind Him on the boardwalk (M09); My Three Year Old Grandson has Downs; May All Your Children Be Gymnasts (J09)
  • Dotty Holcomb Doherty, Make Them Wonder (D09)
  • Carol Dorf, Meditation on Error (J11)
  • Kara Dorris*, Osteochondra Lineage (J11); Defining Janus Words; A Fish-Eye Lens View Of (S11)
  • Monika Dryburgh, Inching Towards Yes; Sleeping Sickness (D10)
  • Meg Eden*, Toaster Oven Hysterectomy (J12)
  • Catherine Edmunds*, Finger Painting; Long Way Home (D10)
  • Trace Estes*, Shell-Shocked (S08)
  • Ann Eustace, BiPolar Roller Coaster (D09); Store Panic in Santa Land (D10); The Lonely Sea of a High Functioning Resident (D11); Bipolar (D12)
  • Anna Evans*, Fruit Flies (M07, S08); Paean to My Flaws (D07); After the Surgery (M08); Beauty in the Unexpected (S09)
  • Ashley Ewing, Shadows (M09)
  • Michelle Fernandez, Watching the sunset through an indeterminate number of eyes (D10)
  • Jim Ferris*, And I Live in This Place (S09); What it Tastes Like; Surrounded by Wealthy Physicians, I Confess; The Way of the Cross; Flouride (J11); On Metal Crutches (M12)
  • Lynn Fetterolf, Amputees; Trading Voices for Eyes (M12)
  • Rebecca Foust* ,The Visitation; Eighteen (D07); Empathy (D08); Books for the Blind; Fear (M09); Frog; Almost (D09); His First Death; Altoona to Anywhere (D10)
  • Linda Fuchs, The Deer is on the Wrong Side of the Fence (S07); Psych; Driftwood (J09); scattered; bi-polar (S09)
  • Eric Gadzinski, Matin; Tattoo (M08); Turbulence (M10)
  • Fran Gardner, Stumble Song; Coyote (M09); Lady With a Green Cane (J09)
  • Vera Gelvin, Staying Alive; Making Peace with Death (J11)
  • Venetia Ghozlan, A Hostile Takeover; Morning Worship (S10); Pariah (J10)
  • Jade Gibson, Speakers (D08)
  • Lisa Gill, In the Room Next to Anne Sexton; Dolly Shots (D11)
  • Elizabeth Glixman*, Homemakers; To Barbara W. Diva (J11)
  • Yvette Green*, Hardsticks (J09); Pulitzer Prize (J11)
  • Stephanie Green*, Crime Biscuits; Two Warriors and the Lost Words (D08)
  • Kathleen Grieger, Rummaging in the Mind; Checking Me Out (M08)
  • Ona Gritz*, There Among the Haves; Twelve Years Old, Swimming (S07); Stride Right; Night Brace; Hemiplegia II (J09); No; Prologue (J10); The Elephant and the Dove (S10); At Fifteen Months; Precedent (M13); When the Man You Love is a Blind Man (J13)
  • Therese Halscheid*, Unsoundness of Mind (S07); The Never-Said Surgeon; White Sock (D07)
  • Mary Hamrick, Uncle Desi's Restaraunt Bar (Post War) (S07)
  • May Hansen, Same (M10)
  • Monique Harris, Eyes; Knees; Speed (M13)
  • Michael Hathaway, My New Career (M07)
  • Tom Healy, What the Right Side Hears; A Possum Entering the Argument (J11)
  • Laura Hershey*, Sunflowers (M07); Insomnia; Sticky History; Fear of Speaking (D10); Thousand Island; Self-Portrait (M11)
  • Christopher Jon Heuer, Balance in God's Wilderness (S10); Tree Hugger; Enhancements (D10); Putty in the Security Gap; Mutant Vampire Squirrels Attack (M11); The Death of Kindle; Balls in the Evaluation Committee (J11)
  • Arden Eli Hill, Reprieve; Conversion/Cure (S08)
  • Kevin Honold, Dreams; The Moon's Brother; Tartarus; Good Night, Moon; The End of the World (D10)
  • Akua Lezli Hope, Unremembered (M13)
  • Barry J. L. Horton, 21st Century Invisible Man (S10); Alarm Clock; Gwendolyn Brooks (D10)
  • Dana Hirsch*, Got Him (M09)
  • Paul Hostovsky, Geographic Tongue; Hegemony; Light Bulb (J12)
  • Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Disorder (M09)
  • Tom Hudgens*, Landscape of My Life (J10)
  • Todd Austin Hunt, Mural (S08)
  • Karla Huston, Lazarus (S08)
  • Lorraine Inabinett, Reckoning (D07)
  • Andy Jackson*, Quasimodo; Hansen's Disease; The River; Desensitized (S12)
  • Kathryn Jacobs, Schooling Raymond; Rinds; Tender Mercies (J08); Legally Dead (D12)
  • Donna Jagodzinski, 10:00 AM; Games (J08)
  • Leland Jamieson, Hearthstone in the Watershed (M08)
  • Liesl Jobson*, Angels, the Voices (M07)
  • Maggie Jochild, Sago; Piedmont Ave. (J07)
  • Michael Lee Johnson, Mother Edith at 98; Red Stroked Survival with a Deadly Hammer (J09) ; Raindrop Baby; Fog Feathers (J10)
  • Elaine Jones, Good Advice if You Have Cerebral Palsy; Striped Deck Chairs (S10); The Naked Show; From a Dream (M11); Ode to My Wheelchair; Little Silly Days (D11)
  • Patricia Wallace Jones, Asked If I can Tell How He Feels; Reducing Y0ur Anti-Psychotics (S09); Not How You Drive (J10)
  • Paul Kahn*, In Katharine's Room (M07); Sacrament (M10)
  • Anne Kaier*, Mother Love (D08); The Dressing Table (J09); Poetry doesn't curve its line; A clutch of narcissus
  • Marie Kane, Shards (S08); Cutter; This is Life (M10); Unsinged; In Every Life Both (S11); What I Don't Want to Hear Now That I Am Crippled (D12)
  • Basanta Kar*, Faith First (M09)
  • Susan Keith, A Festive Holiday Photo; Chronicle from the Land of Maybes (S07)
  • Aaron Weir Kelstone, Ruminations of a Cyborg (M10)
  • Aby Kaupang, Valentine; Diagnosis, Not Otherwise Specified (D12)
  • Diane Kendig*, Speaking of Maria Blanchard; Wedding Portraits of Rivera and Kahlo; Cento For Frida Kahlo's "Diego on My Mind" (S10); Marie Blanchard, 1914 (M11)
  • Desmond Kenny, Palace of Dreams; A Day Trip to Ireland's Eye; A Vocabulary of Yes (D11)
  • Jill Khoury*, Radio Ad (S12); Amenie; Saltation with Cane; Caning after Dark; Certain Seams (M13)
  • Robin Kirk, Cold Harbor, 1991 (D10)
  • Donna Kiser, Breakfast of the Changing Mind (D08)
  • Tracy Koretsky*, A Gift of Balloons (M07); Naked, At 45 (S09)
  • Tricia Knoll, Strain of teh Poor-Voice Poet (J13)
  • Linda Kornasky, Spurning a Deaf Ear; Lucky Live Oaks (J08)
  • Judith Krum, I Wanted to See; They Live (D08); They Live; Impish Blues (M09)
  • Petra Kuppers*, The Origin of My Wheelchair (J07)
  • Stephen Kuusisto*, When Freud was a Crippled Boy (D11); Emily Dickinson and the Ophthalmoscope (S12)
  • Ellen LaFleche*, Angel with Parkinson's Disease (M07); Saving Cinderella's Foot (D07); Audrey's Wig Emporium (D08); Taking My Six-Year-Old Son to the Dinosaur Cafe (D09); After Losing his Arm at the Mill Chickie DuBois Goes to Work as a Gravedigger (J11)
  • Laurie Clements Lambeth*, Reluctant Pegaus; Undressing the Tree (D08); The Selection of a Child for Illness, A Fable (M12)
  • Mark Langer, This Moses; Conversation (M10)
  • Ruth Lehman, Shanghai Translation; Sucking Lemon Pickle (J11)
  • A. C. Leming, Dreams (D10); Birth Pains (S11)
  • Denise Leto*, The Great Vowel Shift; Respiratory; (in the center of the brain there is no you (D11); (Unlike) Green Lake as Sky (M12)
  • P. A. Levy, An Answering Machine on Leave; Stickmen (J09)
  • Aurora Lewis, Life Scars; I Dream of Feet (M08); Puzzle Pieces (D08)
  • Diane Scott Lewis, Limbs and Other Pings (J08)
  • Antoinette Libro, Performance (D07)
  • Lyn Lifshin,When I Think of the Scar Where the Other Car Scalped My Forehead; When My Mother's Hair Grew Longer, Lush on IV; When I See Sarah Jessica Parker is Replaced By Joss Stone (S09)
  • Sandra Lindow, Nothing Given to A Child is Ever Was; Eight Ways of Looking at an Infected Molar (D10)
  • Helen Lloyd, Barbara (J09)
  • Kirk Lumpkin, Who Dances in Daylight? (M08)
  • Raymond Luczak*, Hummingbird (J09); Venus De Milo (S11)
  • James Magill, So It Goes, Nursing Home (D10)
  • Donal Mahoney , Siren; Returning to Work (J09); Stroke (S09); Busboy's Blues (D09); FAther Spoke in Code (J13)
  • Sean Mahoney, Handlss (Parts 1 and 3) (J13)
  • Malialinda , Fragile; Where I'm From (M12)
  • Leah Maines*, The Day My Brain Stoppped; The Usefulness of Canes (J12)
  • Lisa M. Maloney, Alternative Reasoning (S08)
  • Olivia Mammone, Gray Girl (M09)
  • John C. Mannone, Leaving Shadows; A Sweet Kind of Blindness (D08); The Dogwood (D10); The Gift (S11)
  • Nikki Lee Manos, Milk Cartons, A Good Day (J07); Inheriting (M08)
  • H. E. Mantel, Synchrondipity? (D07)
  • Bruce Majors, Depression (M11)
  • Neil Marcus*, Why We Love (S07); Metaphor for Cripple (D08)
  • Miriam Mason, Quicksilver; Thread (J09); Repeat (S09)
  • Louise Mathewson*, A Day; Retreat; Lost (S07)
  • Sophie Mayer, Amiss; words for it; Ouvrir (S12)
  • Steven McLachlan, Water Therapy; Explaining How I Feel to the Man with No Emotions (M10)
  • Jean McLeod, Forcing Amaryllis; Mania (S10); I Said, "I'm Busy"; Quicksilver (D10)
  • Stephen Mead, Wet Paint, Bathers (S10)
  • Elizabeth Meade, Ode to Left Arm (S12)
  • Marianne Meese, Ars Poetica (S08)
  • Laura Merleau, Months Later, the Title Appears (M11); Bridge; Back Injury (D11)
  • Craig A. Meyer, Speaking, sometimes (J13)
  • Robert K. Meyer II, Memorial Day; The Economics of Worshipping Demons (S11)
  • Michael Meyerhofer, The Man With One Ear Gets a Haircut (S08)
  • Emily K. Michael, Transcription; Conversation with an Adjacent Friend (M13)
  • Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu, Scorched (S12); Cuckoo Voice (D10)
  • Kobus Moolman*, Overlooking the Block (M07); Cattle Truck; Aut da fé; Winter Fires (S07); The Hand (D07); Insomnia; Ambition; Survival (S11); List of Shots [I, II, III] (J12)
  • Leroy F. Moore, Jr.*, Krip Hip Hop Honoring Black Blind Blues; Porgy & Bess Krip Hop Remix (J12); Buried Voices (S12)
  • Michael Morell , On Overhearing the Plumstead Inn Waitress; Instructions for Hugging the Dwarf Goodbye; The Dwarf's Sister Plays God (D13)
  • Denise Morris, The Face of Parkinson's (M09)
  • Rusty Morrison, from After Urgency (M13)
  • Mark Murphy, Manageable Space; The Sleeping Father (S12)
  • Shannon Murray, Upright (J08)
  • Tendai Mwanaka*, Stolen From Death (D07); What Are You Waiting For? (S08); For Nigel; Milk with Marvin My Cat; Brutal Times (S09); My Brief Stint as a Terrorist; The Latest (D09)
  • Wendy Natkong, From EMS to MS (J08)
  • Nancy Owens Nelson, Autumn Musings on Multiple Sclerosis (D10)
  • Krista Nielsen, Madly Running (S08)
  • Ed Northen, Wounded Warriors Skiing (S07); Naked Me (D09); Present (M11); Time Warp (M13)
  • Michael Northen*, Math Instructor; Macular Degeneration (D11)
  • Ken Nye, Singing in the Shower (J07)
  • Pravat Kumar Padhy, London Olympics (M12)
  • Danielle Pafunda, from The Book of Scab (M13)
  • Christine Parker, You Will Never Know (J08)
  • Steven Parker, Quasimodo's Eyes (J09)
  • Tina Passman, Blue Rocking; Marooned (S12)
  • Sonali Pattnaik, She Could Dance, She Said (S11)
  • Kay Peters, Something Happened (D10)
  • Kathy Pierce, The Ground We Stand On (S08)
  • Rhonda C. Poynter, Bedtime Story; Sonnet (Lupus at 3 AM) (S12)
  • Margaret Price, Collective Memory; Stick (M08); Fleshly School; Fist (J08)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde*, 80 and Alive (J08); This Cane; A Bruised Reed (D08); Jimmy and Me (M09)
  • Ashok Rajamani, How That Indian Woman Enjoys Samosas (D10)
  • Tony Ramsay, Stansted Airport (D09); Last Night Together (J10)
  • C. R. Reardon, The Slur (J13)
  • Robert Riche, To My Mother (D09); Family Portrait; Surgery (M10); Why Have I Wondered If You Love Me (J10)
  • Sharon Rickman, Traveling in a Wheelchair (J08)
  • Kristen Ringman*, When Words Fall Down (M13)
  • Sarah Rizzuto, Andrea: Waiting to Develop; Regina: Exhibitionist; Mandy: Caregiver (M13)
  • Kim Roberts, Siamese Twins (M08); Histology; Cumulonimbus; Prognoisis (D12)
  • Curtis Robbins*, If I Am At All; Ludwig von Beethoven (S09); Deaf Man Howls (J12)
  • Gary Ronnie, Stasis; Pastoral (J08)
  • Nan Rosen, Phantom Sight; Stone Otter (D09)
  • Tanya Roycraft, hate (J08)
  • Stuart Sanderson*, A Mixed Blessing (S07); If My Hands Could (D07); Wandering Thoughts (S09)
  • Nathan Say*, What I'm Offered Daily (S09); Resurrection; A Beginner's Guide to Psychiatric Medicine (J11)
  • David Scaffidi, In Italy MS is the Name of a Cigarette; Marching Order (J07)
  • Carla Schwartz, Confessions of an Armadillo Queen (D11)
  • Lizz Schumer, Wicki-poeme-pedia; Kinesthesia (S12)
  • Nancy Scott*, Feather (S08);Winter Solstice (D07); Comfort's Concern; Fugue (J08); Blame "Radio Times" and Poetry Month; Skunk Clearing (S10); Dress Up (S12); For Hayden Carruth (M13)
  • George Shean, Twilight (S07)
  • Kaia Sherritt, The Withdrawal (S07)
  • Daniel Simpson*, School For the Blind; My Mother Cleans (S09)
  • Alma Singleton, Waiting for a Hero (J08)
  • Hal Sirowitz, Whole Lot of Shaking Going On; Sculpture on the Ground (D11); A Strange Name for Hope (M12)
  • Floyd Skloot*, Paul Klee at Sixty; Last Winter; Teminal Condition (J12)
  • Daniel, Sluman*, Lettter; Dear Samaritan (D12)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith*, Theodore Enslin, Poet of Maine (M10); Wordability (S11)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith*, Texas School For the Blind, 1955 (J08)
  • Elizabeth Stelling, Avocado Green Kitchen with a Gold Accented Childhood #2, #4, #8 (S12); Uninvited (J13)
  • Megan Stewart, Vagal Maneuvers; On a day when the stairs seem insurmountable (M12)
  • Peter Street*, Bong Damage; Zagreb Camp (D11)
  • Karen Stromberg, Book, Lamp, Tree; Helping the ADHD Child at Home (S07)
  • Omosun Sylvester*, A Moment of Silence (D07)
  • Arbin L. Tabao, Witness (S08); Lola (S10)
  • Abbie Johnson Taylor*, Timber! (J08); Awaiting the Return of My Better Half; While Walking Home (D10)
  • Nicole Taylor, They Were Singing Oya; Jigsaw (M08); Women First; Steps Practice 1, 2, 3; Family Meeting in a Church Downtown (M10)
  • Brian Teare, Three Poems (S12)*
  • Jason Teeple, Lookin' at the Brightside a Tumors (D12)
  • Elaine Terranova, Polio (J07)
  • Dick Thomas, Glioblastoma; Closed Head Injury (J12)
  • Mark Thomas, The Importance of Being Earnest; The Decimal Point (J07); Tiles (S11)
  • Mary Tisera, Pieces (D07); Matthew; Pacified; My Mother's Voice (D08); Stuffed (D09)
  • Austin Tremblay, Crepitus; Late on Palm Sunday; Resolve (J12)
  • Sofie Vastano, Off Ramp (S12)
  • Onyinyechukwu Udegbe, It's a Lie (J07)
  • Karen Wang, Memory Stream; When I Touch Your Face (S11)
  • Megan Webster*, Full Moon; I Want to Jump (J07)
  • Jillian Weise*, Notes on the Body; Cafe Loop; The Villanelle Takes a Stand (J11)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones*, Big Help; Good Night's Sleep (J07); Walk of the One-Breasted Women; Suspicion; The Body Knows (M08); Dialogue with My Knee; Keys; MRI Without Valium (M09)
  • Liz Whiteacre*, Main Lemonade; Pain Suitor (J10); Two Feet Shorter Than My Usual Height (S10); TENs Unit; Witnesses (D10); The Accident: Revised (M11); I Finally Give Back; Home for the Holidays (S11); Trashcan Unmoved; Composition Students Pity Me in English 101 (S12); Pushing Pain (J13)
  • Ellen Williams* Parkinson's Rap (S10)
  • Martin Willits, Jr. , Becoming Disabled; Siamese Twins (J08)
  • Avra Wing*, Live Feed; Going Forth By Day (M12)
  • Gary Winters, Wheelchair Blues (D08)
  • Kathi Wolfe*, Happy Hour; Pulp Fiction (S10); Cheesteak at Pat's; The Green Light; What Sparky Knows; I've Got a Secret (M12); Rita's Prayer (D12)
  • David Wolach, Writing Work; Visitors1 (M13)
  • Jennifer Yaros, Darkness Blues (S11)
  • Anissa Zucker, Manic; Bravery Ails the Beautiful (J12)

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Book Reviews

  • Millicent Borges Accardi Woman on a Shaky Bridge (J10); Injuring Eternity (J11)
  • Kay Anderson and Vicki Forman (ed.) Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum (J10)
  • RD Armstrong* E/OR: A Life Among the Mangled (J11)
  • Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen (eds) Beauty is a Verb: The New Disability Poetry (S11)
  • Linda Benninghoff Whose Cries Are Not Music (M11)
  • Sheila Black How to be a Maquiladora (M07); House of Bone (S07)
  • Sheila Black and Michel Marcoux Continental Divide (J10)
  • Mark Burnhope The Snowboy (S12)
  • C. E. Chaffin Unexpected Light (M09)
  • John Lee Clark, Deaf American Poetry (J09)
  • Norma Cole To Be At Music: Essays and Talks (M12)
  • Barbara Crooker, More (M11)
  • Linda Cronin Dream Bones (D07)
  • Lennard J. Davis (ed.) The Disability Studies Reader (4th Edition) (M13)
  • Joshua Davies Between the Lines of Autism (D12)
  • Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto Waveform (D11)
  • Kara Dorris Elective Affinities (D11); Night Ride Home (S12)
  • Meg Eden Rotary Phones and Facebook (J12)
  • Catherine Edmunds, Small Poisons (D12)
  • Jim Ferris Slouching Towards Guantanamo (J11)
  • Rebecca Foust Dark Card (S08); All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (D10)
  • Linda Fuchs More Ramblings, Less Insanity (D09)
  • Lisa Gill Caput Nili (M12)
  • Elizabeth P. Glixman White Girl Lynching (S10
  • Ona Gritz Left Standing (S07)
  • Therese Halsheid Last Movements ( D07)
  • Gretchen Henderson* Gallerie de Difformite (D11); The House Enters the Street(D12)
  • Laura Hershey Spark Before Dark (S11)
  • Paul Hostovsky Bending the Notes (M10)
  • Gray Jacobik Little Boy Blue, A Memoir in Verse (J11)
  • Liesl Jobson, Ride The Tortoise (J13)
  • Anne Kaier In Fire (S09)
  • Marie Kane Survivors in the Garden (M11)
  • Basanta Kar The Unfold Pinnacle (S08)
  • Jill Khoury, Borrowed Bodies (M11)
  • Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (J08)
  • Ellen LaFleche Estella with One Lung (S08)
  • Cynthia Leweicki-Wilson* and Brenda Brueggemann Disability and the Teaching of Writing (07)
  • Laurie Clements Lambeth Veil and Burn (S08)
  • Tom Lombardo (ed.) Aftershocks (D08)
  • Alex Lubet* Music, Disability, and Society" (S12)
  • Raymond Luczak* Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader (ed.) (S09); Whispers of a Savage Sort and Other Plays of the Deaf American Experience (D09); Assembly Required: Notes on a Deaf Gay LIfe (M10);Mute (J10); Men With Their Hands (S10); This Way to the Acorns (M12); Silence is a Four Letter Word
  • Bobbi Lurie Grief Suite (S11); The Morphine Poems (D12)
  • Neil Marcus Special Effects (D11)
  • Louise Mathewson A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury (J10)
  • Kobus Moolman (ed.) Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities (S10)
  • Rusty Morrison Book of the Given (M12); After Urgency (M13)
  • Tendai Mwanaka Mad Bob Republic - Blood, Bile and a Crying Child (D09)
  • Irie Parker* Twisted Consequences (S09)
  • J. L. Powers This Thing Called the Future (S12)
  • Gary Presley* Seven Wheelchairs (M09)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde A Place Called Return (D10)
  • Kristen Ringman* Makara (D12)
  • Nan Rosen and Carolyn Mineah Voyage to Centauri (D10)
  • Harilyn Rousso* Don't Call Me Inspirational (M13)
  • Robert Rudney*, Lovers Lame (J13)
  • David and Daniel Simpson Audio Chapbook (M08)
  • Floyd Skloot Cream of Kohlrabi (S12)
  • Hal Sirowitz Stray Cat Blues (M13)
  • Daniel Sluman Absence Has a Weight of Its Own (D12)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith Behind Our Eyes (ed.) (J08); Chasing the Green Sun (J13)
  • Christine Stark* Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation (S11)
  • Leslie Swartz Able-Bodied (S12)
  • Brian Teare Companion Grasses (J13)
  • Terry Tracy* A Great Place for a Seizure (M12)
  • Megan Webster BiPolar Express (D07)
  • Jillian Weise The Colony (D11)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones End Cycle (J07)
  • Liz Whiteacre Hit the Ground (S12)
  • Ellen Williams Let's Go Around Again (D07)
  • Kathi Wolfe Helen Keller Takes the Stage (J08); The Green Light (J13)

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Essays

  • Saundra Adams, A Quilt Before Dying (J11); Store Greeters (D11)
  • Michael P. Amram, Treading on Optimism (M12)
  • RD Armstrong, You Have Two Options (J11)
  • Jennifer Bartlett, this is not my beautiful house; this is not my beautiful wife (D10); Ethics, Poetry and the Identity of the Disabled Body (M10)
  • Diane Hoover Bechtler, Broken People (Part 1) (J13)
  • Sheila Black, Eliza Dolitle and Me: Voice, Tone and Power in the Poetics of Disability (J10)
  • Ann Bogle, Driving Years (J10)
  • Louis Bourgeois, Port Allen (J13)
  • Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Hearsplaining (D12); The Artist and Silence (M13)
  • Jimmy Burns, Wounded Diction (D10); The Other Bloc (D11)
  • C. E. Chaffin, A Manic-Depressive Composes Poems for His Deaf Wife (J09)
  • Joyce Campbell, The Poetic Path (S08)
  • John Lee Clark, The Case for Disability Literature (D09)
  • John Thomas Clark, Othering (D07)
  • Barbara Crooker, Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetics of Disability ( J10)
  • Jim Ferris, Crip Poetry, or How I Learned to Love the Limp ( J07)
  • Joyce Campbell, The Poetic Path (S08)
  • Mike Ervin, I Am, therefore I Loiter (J13)
  • Chelsea Fulk, Ablect Poetics: Pafunda and Sirowitz (S12)
  • Lisa Gill, The Written Forms of this Myriad Body (S12)
  • Yvette Green, Dream Alliance Film Project (S09)
  • Steff Green, Blind Characters: A Process of Awareness (M09)
  • Ona Gritz, Frida and Me (S10)
  • Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Open Season: Writing Tracy Latimer (S12)
  • Tara Arlene Innmon, Squashed Baby Pigs ( J08)
  • Anne Kaier, River Creature: A Poet Finds a Way to Talk About Her Disability (J09)
  • Paul Kahn, The Deepening Fog: Part 1 (S09); The Deepening Fog: Part 2 (D09); The Deepening Fog: Part 3 (M10)
  • Marie Kane, The Opportunity for Revision (D09)
  • Diane Kendig, Speaking of "Speaking of Maria Blanchard" (S10)
  • Tracy Koretsky, Seeking Enlightened Portrayals: Judging the Dolly Gray Award, Part 1 ( D08); Part 2 (M09); Giving it Away: A Report (D10)
  • Petra Kuppers, Crip Sheet for 'Latin Does Not Have a Word for Symmetry' (S07); Kathi Wolfe: Rome Ashes 1946 (J08)
  • Stephen Kuusisto, Creative Writing and Disability Studies: Liminal Epistemologies (M12)
  • Ellen LaFleche, Happily Ever After (D07)
  • Laurie Clements LambethMarketing Disablity and the Integrity of the Poet (D107)
  • Stephanie Leonard, The Sickness (S11)
  • Jessica Lewis Luck, Disability, Poetry and Pedagogy (J10)
  • Raymond Luczak, Letter to Sean Penn (S09)
  • Bobbi Lurie, The Diagnosis (S11)
  • Sally Martin, My Life with the Wolf (J08)
  • Maya Northen, Who Really Offers Disability Travel (S09); Social Media: Tools for Writers, Too (D11)
  • Michael Northen, Amaryllis and the Philly Festival (S07); A Brief History of Disability Poetry (M08); Disability Poetry in 2008, Part 1 (D08); Part 2 (M09); Paul Kahn:Something Close to Beautiful (M10); Tom Andrews and the Hemophiliac's Motorcycle (J11); A Diana Serviss Day (S11); Short Disability Fiction: Part 1 (D12); Part 2 (M13)
  • Rob J. Quinn, I'm Not Here to Inspire You (M12)
  • Carmen Papalia, Caning in the City (J07)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde, The Bags of Life (M09)
  • Scott Rains, Solo Travel With a Disability (S09)
  • Curtis Robbins, Response to Dialogue on Disability (S09)
  • Stuart Sanderson, A Meditation on Computers (S08); Amaryllis Theater (S09)
  • Nancy Scott, Blind Writer at Work (J10)
  • Dan Simpson, Line Breaks the Way I See Them (M07)
  • Cheré Smtih, Frames of Restraint in Eigner and Bartlett (S12)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith, "Hearing a Pear": Poetry Reading on a New Frequency (J10)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith and Bonnie Blose, You Can't Skip the Scary Stuff (S09)
  • Peter Street, from Memoir (D11)
  • Osomun Sylvester, On Poetry (D07)
  • Terry Tracy, Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (D12)
  • Claudia Vesterby, Two German Translations (D12)
  • Sharon Wachsler, Disability Culture (D08)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Poetry Fits My Body (S09)
  • Liz Whiteacre, Extending Conversations on Pain (M11)
  • Ellen Williams, Masquerade (D08); Summer Goes to Sleep (S09); When Dreams Don't Come True (S10): Shortcuts to Serenity (M11)
  • André Le Monte Wilson, Ghosts and Poets: Ghosts (M13); Ghosts and Poets: Poets (J13)
  • Avra Wing, I'm not Disabled, I'm a Hippie (M12)
  • Kathi Wolfe, Helen Keller: Obsession and Muse (J07); Finding My Muse: On Being a Crip, Queer Poet (M08); Labor Pains and the Muse: The Birth of Uppity Blind Girl (S10); Time Traveling with My Muse (M12)

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Interviews

  • Christopher Ambolino, film maker (M08)
  • Trish Ayers, playwrite and poet (M08)
  • Jennifer Bartlett, poet (J11)
  • John Lee Clark, poet and editor(J10)
  • Barbara Crooker, poet (J08)
  • Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto, poets (D12)
  • Philip Dowd, scholar and poet (D09)
  • Trace Estes, poet and editor of The Alsop Review (S09)
  • Anna Evans, poet and editor of The Barefoot Muse (J08)
  • Ann Finger*, novelist, fiction and memoir writer [interviewed by Josh Lukin] (J13)
  • Laura Hershey, poet (D10)
  • Barry H.J. Horton novelist and poet (D10)
  • Noria Jablonski, short story writer (M08)
  • Paul Kahn, poet and playwrite (S07)
  • Anne Kaier, memoirist and poet (M13)
  • Tracy Koretsky, novelist (M07)
  • Chris Kuell, editor of Breath & Shadow [Interviewed by Linda Cronin} (S12)
  • Petra Kuppers, scholar and poet (J07)
  • Ellen LaFleche, poet (J11)
  • Leah Maines, publisher of Finishing Line Books (D10)
  • Kobus Moolman, poet and playwrite ( D07)
  • Irie Parker, novelist S09)
  • Rusty Morrison, poet and editor (D12)
  • Nathan Say, performance poet (M12)
  • Nancy Scott, poet (S08)
  • Rachel Simon, novelist (D11)
  • Hal Sirowitz and Minter Krotzer, poet, essayist (S12)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith, editor and poet (J12)
  • Eliot Spindel, web designer (M12)
  • Christine Stark, novelist (D11)
  • Terry Tracy, novelist (J12)
  • Josette Todaro, director for Amarylis Theater (M08)
  • Jillian Weise, novelist and poet (M12)
  • Liz Whiteacre, poet (S10)
  • Gail Wilmott, editor of Kaleidoscope (D08)
  • Sheila Black, Lydia Fecteau, Heather Garrison, Therese Halscheid, and Cynthia Leweicki-Wilson, dialogue on teaching disability literature (M09)
  • Linda Cronin, Ona Gritz, Patricia Wellingham-Jones and Kathi Wolfe, dialogue on disability poetry (J09)
  • Kara Dorris, Rebecca Foust, Anne Kaier, Laurie Clements Lambeth and Liz Whiteacre, dialogue on disability poetry (S11)

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Photography, Visual Arts, and Music

  • Amanda Cachia, What Can a Body Do? (S12)
  • Nancy Creighton, Betty G. Miller: Deaf Painter (S07)
  • Linda A. Cronin, Sandi Yi and Wearable Art (J12)
  • Rebecca Foust, Owen Bragg: Artist and Author (S11)
  • Yvette Green, Our Film Project (S07)
  • Dana Hirsch, Computer Art ( D07)
  • Diane Kendig, Speaking Even More of Maria Blanchard ( M13)
  • Heather Kirk, The Exposed Series: Flowers on Black (M07); Bent Palm Seeries (J08)
  • Janet Lawson, The Dignity of Risk (D11)
  • Alex Lubet, What the Right Hand Doesn't know… (S12)
  • John Luttenberger III, Creating Braile Programs for Mendelssohn Club Concerts (M12)
  • Ilene Myers, Experiences in Digital Photography (D08)
  • Elijah Northen, Exploring Body Form (J07); Exploring Body Form - Part 2 (D08)
  • Stuart Sanderson, Computer Art (M10)
  • Robert Woltanski, Painting: My Story (J09)

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Book Excerpts

  • Trish Ayers, LUMPS [play] M08
  • Jonathan Chiccino, The Penumbra Chrnoicles [novel] S10
  • Norma Cole, To Be At Music [essays and talks] M12
  • Gretchen Henderson, Of Marvelous Things Heard [essays] D12
  • Paul Kahn, The Making of Free Verses [play] D07
  • Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus , Cripple Poetics: A Love Story [poetics] J08
  • Tracy Koretsky, Ropeless [novel] J07
  • Noria Jablonski, Human Oddities [short stories] M08
  • Liesl Jobson, Soda Lakes [short story] D07
  • Raymond Luczak, Assembly Required [autobiography] M10; Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer 20 years Later [memoir] S11
  • Rusty Morrison, Book of the Given [poetry] M12
  • John Pixley, Jury By Trial [play] D07
  • Gary Presley, Seven Wheelchairs [autobiography] D08
  • Kristen Ringman, Makara [novel] D12
  • Nan Rosen and Carolyn Mineah, Voyage to Centauri [novel] M10
  • Robert Rudney, Lovers Lame [novel] D07
  • Harilyn Rousso, Don't Call Me Inspirational [autobiography] M13
  • Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation [novel] S11
  • Leslie Swartz, Able Bodied [autobiography] D07
  • Musa Zulu, The Language of Me [autobiography] S10

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Fiction

  • Jimmy Burns, Killing Time Between Therapies (M12)
  • Anne Finger, Convalescence (S12)
  • Sandy Olson Hill, Assisted Living (12)
  • Leisl Jobson, The Gospel of Adam's Ex; Invasive Species; The Night is a Teacher (M09) Ulcer; Ecstay (J09); Still Life in the Art Room (J13)
  • Chris Kuell, Strange Fruit (M13)
  • Ed Krizek, Afterlife (D10)
  • Tendai Mwanaka, Breaking the Silence (S08)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith, Two Really Different Things (S12)
  • Shannon O'Connor, Drowning in Cats (M13)
  • Abbie Johnson Taylor, The Flower Boy ( S08)
  • Ellen Williams, The Hat (J08); Sally and Maggie (S08), Waiting Room Blues (D08); I Shot the Radio in the Women's Locker Room (J09)

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Drama

  • Lucas Foss, Re-Calculating (Part 1) (M13)
  • Paul Kahn, Into the Gray Zone (S12)

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Reading Loop

  • Burnhope, Mark (editor), Negotiating Broken Bridges: disability poetics from where I'm sitting. Featuring Sean Burn, Laurie Clemens, Peter Daniels, Sophie Mayer, Daniel Shuman and Peter Street (J12)
  • Dorris, Kara (editor), Some Notes on the Body as a Text of Erasure. Featuring Sean Burn, Jennifer Bartlett, Carol Berg, Sheila Black, and Elizabeth Brasher (S12)
  • Jackson, Andy (editor), Under My Skin I Have a Different Name. Featuring Aidan Coleman, Antony Ridell, and Mal McKimmie (M13)
  • Northen, Michael (editor), Ten Poems to Kickstart Your Disability Lit Class. Featuring Linda Benninghoff, Linda J. Cronin, Barbara Crooker, Ona Gritz, Christopher Jon Heuer, Leroy Moore, Michael Morrell, Stuart Sanderson, and Peter Street (J13)
  • Simpson, Daniel (editor), The Trouble with I. Featuring Stephen Kuusisto, Lynn Manning, Nancy Scott, and David Simpson. (D12)
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