Wordgathering

A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

Volume 10     Issue 2     June 2016

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, visual arts/music, book excerpts, drama, reading loops and responses, 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)
  • Paridhi Agarwal, Idiopathic (J15)
  • Indira Allegra, Withdrawal from Paxil into June (M07); Seasonal Affective Disorder (J08); Anointed (M08)
  • Natalie Altman, I'd Rather Be Bi-Coastal (M08)
  • William Alton, Five Poems (J14)
  • Michael Amram*, Pros and Cons of Publishing (M16); The Counter (J16)
  • 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)
  • Prerna Bakshi, I Can Hear You (S15)
  • Khairani Barokka, poem for r; Closing of the Bones (S15)
  • 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)
  • Sandra Becker, Benjamin (M15)
  • Dominika Bednarska, Cripple; My Friend Paul Says (M11)
  • Ekiwah Adler Belendez, Hard New England Winter; The Woods (J14)
  • Jim Bell, Waist High (J11)
  • Sally Bellerose, Grasshopper; Dementia Wine (S13)
  • Kate Bernadette Benedict, Holding Up (J14); Tinnitus (S14)
  • Linda Benninghoff*, Winter; When the Roads Cry Out (M11); St. Paul St.; Springime in the City (J11); To Margaret (D11); The Shell (S13); Abandoned in the Woods; Sorting through (D13); In Your Room (J14); No One Can Discover the World for Someone Else; Ocean, Emotion, Shun (S14)
  • Mike Berger, Adaptation (J10); Peggy (12)
  • Cathy Best, Untitled (S08)
  • J V Birch, Extramarital Bliss (J16)
  • Sheila Black*, What You Mourn (M07); Epic (M10); Las Dos Fridas (S10); Psalm; How it Might have Happened (D10); To Avalon; The Ashes (M12); Disability 101 (D15)
  • 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)
  • Janet Buck, Votives Down to the Metal Plate (S15)
  • 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); A Creed for Miscarriers; To My Parallel-Parked King, richard III; I Still Recoil at the Taste of Fast Mustard (S14)
  • 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)
  • Elena Caban, Poem of the Psychotic (S15)
  • 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)
  • Tasha Chemel*, Reduction (M14); Lessons (S14); Planet of the Intermittantly-Sighted (M16)
  • 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); Goldilocks in Denial (J15)
  • 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 is Therapeutic; N to the Zero Power (D10)
  • Sue Clennell, Since the Darkness (S14)
  • 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)
  • Maryann Corbett, Eighth Circle; Ballade for the Last Move (J14)
  • 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); Because It's Mine; I Refuse (S15) Gathering Dust (D15)
  • 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); Plentitude (M12)
  • 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); from For & Against Sara, (M13) you say remember; wonder and repetition (J14) Antique Mall: Benbrook, Texas; Elegy for Eulogy, TX and the River that Was; Prayer for Winter (J15)
  • Olfa Drid, Dis-Abled (M16)
  • Monika Dryburgh, Inching Towards Yes; Sleeping Sickness (D10)
  • Meg Eden*, Toaster Oven Hysterectomy (J12); As Winter Comes; The House Reconstruction Begins (M14)
  • Catherine Edmunds*, Finger Painting; Long Way Home (D10); When He Needs Silence; Scratched Record (M14)
  • Kristina England, Girl Sent Away, Forced to Wear Dark Glasses (J14)
  • Trace Estes*, Shell-Shocked (S08); Mirth as a Stage of Grief; An Agent of Chaos Exposes a Live Wire in the Church Basement (M14)
  • Ann Eustace, BiPolar Roller Coaster (D09); Store Panic in Santa Land (D10); The Lonely Sea of a High Functioning Resident (D11); Bipolar (D12); Wolf Visitor (J16)
  • Anna Evans*, Fruit Flies (M07, S08); Paean to My Flaws (D07); After the Surgery (M08); Beauty in the Unexpected (S09); Inconclusive Appointment with the Specialist (S13)
  • Ashley Ewing, Shadows (M09)
  • Firestone Feinberg, A Fearful Masque Dishonesty (S14)
  • Michelle Fernandez, Watching the sunset through an indeterminate number of eyes (D10); Sherman Alexie Signed My Book (S14)
  • 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); A Little Bit Hungry; Tell Aristotle; Frida de Los Muertos (S13); For Himself (S15)
  • Lynn Fetterolf, Amputees; Trading Voices for Eyes (M12)
  • David Flynn, The Heart (M16)
  • 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)
  • Anna Garza G'z*, At the Chinese Kitchen; After Twenty Years of Blindness (S13); Interpreting; Encounter; Resumen (J14)
  • 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); Manifestations of Thwart and Opine for Curved Bill Thrasher and Toy Piano (M15)
  • Elizabeth Glixman*, Homemakers; To Barbara W. Diva (J11)
  • Tony Gloeggler, UndercoverBenjamin (M15); In the Building; The Weather (M16)
  • Jessica Goody, Learning to Walk; Stockings (M15); Drawing Blood (J15)
  • Mitchel Grabois, Lamps (J15)
  • 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)
  • Kate Grisim*, Sick Kids (M15)
  • 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); Eighteen; Testing the Seams; Six roller Coasters; In Jersey Now (D13)
  • Therése 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)
  • Kevin Heaton, A Chalk Drawing Before Dying; Pata's Demntia (D14)
  • 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); Deaf People Defend New York Against Giant Octopi; Cut UP (S15)
  • Sister Lou Ella Hickman, Not an Arm or a Leg (J16)
  • 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)
  • Kate Holly-Clark, Witch's Bottle (S15)
  • Paul Hostovsky*, Geographic Tongue; Hegemony; Light Bulb (J12); To the Man Talking to Himself on a Park Bench; In the Home for Vehicular Manslaughterers By the Sea; The Things I want to Say (S14)
  • Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Disorder (M09)
  • Wendy Howe, Rapunzel's Daughter (J14)
  • 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); Born Away By Distance (D13); Vincent (J15)
  • Kathryn Jacobs, Schooling Raymond; Rinds; Tender Mercies (J08); Legally Dead (D12); War Poem; In Memory of Half My Acquaintance (D15);On the Spectrum (M16)
  • 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)
  • Annalee Johnson-Kwochka*, Broken Sonnet: Apology to Sripe the Cat, 2001-2014; Mothers of Sons with Schizophrenia (J15)
  • Amy Jomantas, Outside My Window – April 2014 (J14)
  • Clara B. Jones, Like Father, Like Daughter (S15)
  • 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 Your Anti-Psychotics (S09); Not How You Drive (J10)
  • Jyothsnaphanija*, Snakes and Candles; Puddle By the Secrets; Sunrise (J14); Fiction (D14)
  • 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 (M12); Forgiveness (M16)
  • 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); When the Rain Falls to End the Drough; The House is Finally Quiet (S13); Wakefulness; This Old House (J16)
  • Basanta Kar*, Faith First (M09)
  • Siham Karami, The Circumference of Pain; Now (J14)
  • Aby Kaupang, Valentine; Diagnosis, Not Otherwise Specified (D12)
  • Susan Keith, A Festive Holiday Photo; Chronicle from the Land of Maybes (S07)
  • Aaron Weir Kelstone, Ruminations of a Cyborg (M10)
  • Erin Kelly*, How to Wait (J14)
  • 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) Places; Last Lines from Lost Lines (D13)
  • Jill Khoury*, Radio Ad (S12); Amenie; Saltation with Cane; Caning after Dark; Certain Seams (M13); Certain Seems – audio version (J14); Blind Date (D15)
  • Robin Kirk, Cold Harbor, 1991 (D10)
  • Vanessa Kirkpatrick, Sleeping Beauty (M14)
  • Donna Kiser, Breakfast of the Changing Mind (D08)
  • Tracy Koretsky*, A Gift of Balloons (M07); Naked, At 45 (S09)
  • Tricia Knoll, Strain of the Poor-Voice Poet (J13); The Rusted Gate Rasp (S13)
  • Linda Kornasky, Spurning a Deaf Ear; Lucky Live Oaks (J08)
  • Judith Krum, I Wanted to See; They Live (D08); They Live; Impish Blues (M09)
  • Krishna Kumar, Depth (J15)
  • 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)
  • Lynda McKinney Lambert, When We Danced Together (S13)
  • 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)
  • Travis Lau, Perspectival (S15)
  • 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)
  • Karyn Lie-Nielsen*, Voice; How I Leaned to Talk (D15); Handbuzz; Hank Williams and My Father (16)
  • 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)
  • CAli Linfor*, The Dark Question (D16)
  • Helen Lloyd, Barbara (J09)
  • K-K Loke, Fire Ant Attack; Heavy Yoke (S15)
  • Kirk Lumpkin, Who Dances in Daylight? (M08)
  • Raymond Luczak*, Hummingbird (J09); Venus De Milo (S11); Instructions to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man (J14) from The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips (J16)
  • 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*, Handles (Parts 1 and 3) (J13); Drift with Haydn (D15)
  • 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)
  • Liv Mammone*, Gray Girl (M09); The Stare is a Lens Panning up; Animal Stance; People Leave Their Houses; I Can't Be A Confessional Poet Because Basically All I want to Say is This; Vagina Resigning (M15)
  • Maakomele Manaka, The Sky and the City (J16)
  • 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)
  • John Masterson, Steel and Leather (S13)
  • 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); Wordbomb; Old Music (D15); Crushed (J16)
  • MaryAnn L. Miller*, Neurological Institute Columbia Presbyterian; Involuntary Recumbency (S13); Far Out on a Comet's Tail; Why I Chose the Work (S15)
  • 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)
  • Jan Napier*, Melancholia (D14)
  • Travis Laurence Naught, On the Water (M16)
  • Wendy Natkong, From EMS to MS (J08)
  • Nancy Owens Nelson, Autumn Musings on Multiple Sclerosis (D10)
  • Andrea Nicki, Nightcrawlers (D13)
  • 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); Pigs Fly; On a Photo by Eli Northen (D15)
  • Ken Nye, Singing in the Shower (J07)
  • Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Voice Lessons (J14)
  • Meghan O'Hearn, An Open Letter to My Parents (M16)
  • David Olsen, White Ceiling (S15)
  • Pravat Kumar Padhy, London Olympics (M12); Reasoning Reality (M14)
  • Danielle Pafunda, from The Book of Scab (M13)
  • Abigail Palmer, Love Child (S13)
  • 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)
  • Nick Pentzell*, Wave (D14)
  • Barbara Perez*, The Regime; Cunfusing Elegance for Grace (M14)
  • Kay Peters, Something Happened (D10)
  • Kathy Pierce, The Ground We Stand On (S08)
  • Rhonda C. Poynter, Bedtime Story; Sonnet (Lupus at 3 AM) (S12); The Lady Sitting Next to Me at the Memory Clinic; Chicago Lights (J16)
  • Margaret Price, Collective Memory; Stick (M08); Fleshly School; Fist (J08)
  • J. F. Pritchard, Guilford Lake (J15): Meningitis Hallucinations (M16)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde*, 80 and Alive (J08); This Cane; A Bruised Reed (D08); Jimmy and Me (M09)
  • Tony Ramsay, Stansted Airport (D09); Last Night Together (J10)
  • VAnessa Raney, The Power of Audio (D14)
  • 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)
  • Jennifr Richardson, Mental Compulsion (S14)
  • Sarah Rizzuto, Andrea: Waiting to Develop; Regina: Exhibitionist; Mandy: Caregiver (M13)
  • Kim Roberts, Siamese Twins (M08); Histology; Cumulonimbus; Prognoisis (D12); How to Imagine Deafness; Hearing Loss (J14)
  • 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); A Green Balloon (D13)
  • Weldon Sandusky, The State Insane Asylum, Terrell, Texas; Student Body President, Eighth Grade (S14)
  • Gerard Sarnat, Nobel Valedictory (M14)
  • DJ Savarese, Blanch-Ink-Jet Maneuver; Voegels (D15)
  • 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)
  • Angeline Schellenberg, It's a Boy; Pain Threshold; Stigma; Drug Trial (S13) Autism for Dummies I; Waving (D15)
  • Carla Schwartz, Confessions of an Armadillo Queen (D11)
  • Elaine G. Schwartz, Gaza; Aunti Margaret's Hungarian Pastry (M15)
  • Lizz Schumer*, Wicki-poeme-pedia; Kinesthesia (S12)
  • Nancy Scott (1)*, 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); Thanksgiving Dishes (D13); First Things (M15); One Soft Thing (D15)
  • Nancy Scott (2)*, The Name (S14); Miami's First POW Home From Korea, 1953; Delicate Balance (M15)
  • Marian Kaplun Shapiro, At the Sports Club (S13)
  • Jordyn Shawhan, My Picasso-ed Poem (S15)
  • George Shean, Twilight (S07)
  • Kaia Sherritt, The Withdrawal (S07)
  • Daniel Simpson*, School For the Blind; My Mother Cleans (S09); A Blind Boy's First Glimpse of Heaven; French Kiss; My Excuse (S14); When We Were Four; Almost Drowning (D14)
  • David Simpson, When My Guide Dog Willow Pulls; Postcard to Emily Dickinson; Shampoo (D14)
  • 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); citalopram (D14); Doppelganger (D15) dance; &this is love (J15)
  • Randy Smit, Toilet Talk; Not Bad, You? (M14)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith*, Theodore Enslin, Poet of Maine (M10); Wordability (S11)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith*, Texas School For the Blind, 1955 (J08)
  • Jeremy Spears, Cosmic Turt; le (S15)
  • Jill Stein*, Autumn Walk; Magic (D14)
  • 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)
  • Jessica Stokes, 7:53 in Fairview, Iowa; Geriatric Medicine; Monster (D14)
  • Peter Street*, Bong Damage; Zagreb Camp (D11)
  • Karen Stromberg, Book, Lamp, Tree; Helping the ADHD Child at Home (S07); Untitled (M14)
  • Andrew Sydlik, Dreams of Driving Blind; To My Cane (D13)
  • Omosun Sylvester*, A Moment of Silence (D07)
  • Arbin L. Tabao, Witness (S08); Lola (S10)
  • Pia Taavila-Borscheim, Flag Pole; After He Leaves; Salem (D13); Fashion Forward (D14)
  • Grant Tarbard, Nettle Soup (S15)
  • 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)
  • Lori-Ann Tessier, Fighting With Frida Kahlo; Ode to MySocks and Pablo Neruda (D13)
  • 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)
  • Eileen Van Hook, Seeing the Light (D13)
  • Sofie Vastano, Off Ramp (S12)
  • Onyinyechukwu Udegbe, It's a Lie (J07)
  • Austin Wallace, Crippled Child in Costume (S14)
  • Karen Wang, Memory Stream; When I Touch Your Face (S11)
  • Jaclyn Weber, Daily Cluster Fuck (J15)
  • 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)
  • Roy White*, I See it Feelingly (D14); Dead Letters (S15); The Sweet and Bitter Fool; Reefer Madness (J16)
  • Liz Whiteacre*, Make 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); Yet Another Referral; Shoaling in the Mall (D14)
  • 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)
  • David Wolach, Writing Work; Visitors1 (M13)
  • 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); Blindista (S13)
  • Jennifer Yaros, Darkness Blues (S11)
  • Chingmang Yuan, Cock-a-Doodle-Do; Song to the Tone Deaf (S14)
  • 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); Even More So (J16)
  • Rachel Adams Raising Henry (D13)
  • Kathryn Allan (ed.) Disability in Science Fiction (D13)
  • Kathryn Allan Djibril Al-Ayad (eds.) Accessing the Future (S15)
  • Kay Anderson and Vicki Forman (ed.) Libre Acesso (M16)
  • Susan Antebi and Beth E. Jorgensen (ed.) E/OR: A Life Among the Mangled (J11)
  • RD Armstrong* E/OR: A Life Among the Mangled (J11)
  • Jennifer Bartlett Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (S14)
  • 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); Wen Kroy (D14)
  • Sheila Black and Michel Marcoux Continental Divide (J10)
  • Jeffrey Brune and Daniel J. Wilson (eds.) Disability and Passing (S13)
  • Mark Burnhope The Snowboy (S12); Species (S14)
  • C. E. Chaffin Unexpected Light (M09)
  • Rebecca Chamaa* Pills, Poetry and Prose (D15)
  • John Lee Clark (ed.), Deaf American Poetry (J09); Deaf Lit Extravaganza (D13); Where I Stand (D14)
  • Norma Cole To Be At Music: Essays and Talks (M12)
  • Creative Connections, Anthology 2014 (M11)
  • Barbara Crooker, More (M11); Selected Poems (M15)
  • Linda Cronin Dream Bones (D07)
  • Eileen Cronin* Mermaid (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)
  • Jay Dolmage, Disability Rhetoric (M11)
  • Kara Dorris Elective Affinities (D11); Night Ride Home (S12)
  • Patricia Dunn, Disabling Characters (J15)
  • Meg Eden Rotary Phones and Facebook (J12); The Girl Who Came Back (J14); A Week with Beijing (M15)
  • Catherine Edmunds, Small Poisons (D12); Bacchus Wynd (J14)
  • Katie Ellis, Disability and Culture (M11)
  • Anna M. Evans The Stolen From (S13); Forgetting Home (J14)
  • Jim Ferris Slouching Towards Guantanamo (J11)
  • Rebecca Foust Dark Card (S08); All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (D10); Paradise Drive (M15)
  • Linda Fuchs More Ramblings, Less Insanity (D09); Healing Times (S14)
  • Lisa Gill Caput Nili (M12)
  • Elizabeth P. Glixman White Girl Lynching (S10
  • Joseph Geraci The Deaf-Mute Boy (D15)
  • Tony Gloeggler Until the Last Light Leaves (J16)
  • Mitch Grabois Two-Headed Dog (D13)
  • Ona Gritz Left Standing (S07); Geode (D13);On the Whole (J14)
  • Nancy Davis Viva Halifax hook (S15)
  • Therese Halsheid Last Movements ( D07); Frozen Latitudes (D14)
  • Gretchen Henderson* Gallerie de Difformite (D11); The House Enters the Street (D12); Ugliness (M16)
  • Laura Hershey Spark Before Dark (S11)
  • Donna Hill The Heart of Applebutter Hill (J16)
  • Paul Hostovsky Bending the Notes (M10);
  • Gray Jacobik Little Boy Blue, A Memoir in Verse (J11)
  • Liesl Jobson, Ride The Tortoise (J13)
  • Darolyn Jones and Liz Whiteacre (eds.) Monday Coffee and Other Stories of Mothering Children with Special Needs (M14)
  • Anne Kaier In Fire (S09); Home with Henry (M15)
  • Suzanne Kamata Gadget Girl (M14)
  • Marie Kane Survivors in the Garden (M04)
  • Basanta Kar The Unfold Pinnacle (S08)
  • Desmond Kenny My Sense of Blind (D13); Past Tense (M15)
  • Jill Khoury Borrowed Bodies (M11)
  • Ed Krizek* Colors of the Mind (J15)
  • 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)
  • Rebecca Chamaa Pills, Poetry and Prose (D15)
  • Karyn LIe-Nielsen Handbuzz and Other Voices (D15)
  • 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 (J12) Hands (S10); This Way to the Acorns (M12); Silence is a Four Letter Word(S12); QDA: A Queer Deaf Anthology (D15); The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips (J16)
  • Bobbi Lurie Grief Suite (S11); The Morphine Poems (D12)
  • Erika Madden Cries from the Fifth Floor (D14)
  • John C. Mannone (ed.) Disabiled Monsters (D13)
  • Neil Marcus Special Effects (D11)
  • Louise Mathewson A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury (J10)
  • George McKay Movin' and Shakin' (D13)
  • Arley McNeney Post (M15)
  • Maryann L. Miller La Belle Indifference (S15)
  • Kobus Moolman (ed.) Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities; Left Over (D13); A Book of Rooms (M15)
  • Rusty Morrison Book of the Given (M12); After Urgency (M13)
  • Tendai Mwanaka Mad Bob Republic - Blood, Bile and a Crying Child (D09)
  • Tendai Mwanaka and Daniel da Purifacacao (ed.) Best "New" African Poetry 2015 (M16)
  • Susan Nussbaum Good King, Bad Kings (D13)
  • Irie Parker* Twisted Consequences (S09)
  • Laline Paull The Bees (M15)
  • Adam Pottle Mantis Dreams (S13)
  • J. L. Powers This Thing Called the Future (S12); Colors of the Wind (J15)
  • Gary Presley* Seven Wheelchairs (M09)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde A Place Called Return (D10)
  • David Rawson Fuckhead (M14)
  • Sue Ridge and John Davies Our Storeys: Art and Poetry in Healthcare (S14)
  • Kristen Ringman* Makara (D12)
  • Curtis Robbins In Spite of Everything (S15)
  • Dana Robbins The Left Side of My Life (J16)
  • Nan Rosen and Carolyn Mineah Voyage to Centauri (D10)
  • Harilyn Rousso* Don't Call Me Inspirational (M13)
  • Robert Rudney* Lovers Lame (J13)
  • salman Rushdie Shame (J16)
  • Lizz Schumer Buffalo Steel (M14)
  • Nancy Scott (2) Running Down Broken Cement (D14)
  • Daniel Simpson School for the Blind (D14)
  • 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)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith Nobody's Jackknife (D15)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith (ed.) Behind Our Eyes (J08); Chasing the Green Sun (J13)
  • Christine Stark* Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation (S11)
  • Jill Stein Steeplechase (M15)
  • Lynn Strongin The Burn Poems (J15)
  • Leslie Swartz Able-Bodied (S12)
  • Brian Teare Companion Grasses (J13); The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (D15)
  • Tracy A. Todd and Sean J. Mahoney (eds.)* Something on Our Minds (vol. 1) (D13); Vol. 3 (M16)
  • Terry Tracy* A Great Place for a Seizure (M12)
  • Michael Uniacke* The Quest for Edith Ackers (J14); Deafness Down (J15); Deafness Gain (J16)
  • Megan Webster BiPolar Express (D07)
  • Joselle Vanderhooft (ed.) Shattering Ableist Narratives (S13)
  • Jillian Weise The Colony (D11); The book of Goodbyes (S13)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones End Cycle (J07)
  • Liz Whiteacre Hit the Ground (S12)
  • Ellen Williams Let's Go Around Again (D07)
  • Kristen Witucki The Translator (J14)
  • Kathi Wolfe Helen Keller Takes the Stage (J08); The Green Light (J13); The Uppity Blind Girl Poems (M15)

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Essays

  • Saundra Adams, A Quilt Before Dying (J11); Store Greeters (D11)
  • Timothy Allen, Great Expectations (D15)
  • 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) Broken People – Part 2 (S13)
  • Sheila Black, Eliza Dolitle and Me: Voice, Tone and Power in the Poetics of Disability (J10); Prisoner of Discourse (D10); Ilizarov (The Fixator) or Elegy for my Brace (J12)
  • 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)
  • Tasha Chemel, Fingerpainting with Grief (M14)
  • John Lee Clark, The Case for Disability Literature (D09); Jonathan Swift's Deaf Poems (J14); Metatactile Knowledge (D15)
  • 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)
  • Philip Dowd, Logos, Mythos, and Disability Poetry (J14)
  • Laura Emerson, Understanding Peter (S13)
  • Mike Ervin, I Am, therefore I Loiter (J13); Openly Crippled (J14)
  • Tanya Frank, Finding Tilly (M16)
  • Mel Finefrock, Letters: What Love Sees (J15)
  • Chelsea Fulk, Ablect Poetics: Pafunda and Sirowitz (S12)
  • S. Avis Gray, El Dorado Days (D13)
  • Joyce Campbell, The Poetic Path (S08)
  • Yvette Green, Dream Alliance Film Project (S09); My Cabbage patch Doll (S13)
  • Steff Green, Blind Characters: A Process of Awareness (M09)
  • Kate Grisim, Why We Need to Change the Narratives Surrounding Disability (S15)
  • Ona Gritz, Frida and Me (S10); Practical Love (15)
  • Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Open Season: Writing Tracy Latimer (S12)
  • Caitlin Hernandez, Portals (S14); Lettters: With Anyone Else (J15)
  • Cynthia Hogue*, Mother Cares (J14)
  • 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)
  • Rachel Kallem Williams, The Night My Cat Told Me to Kill Myself (J16)
  • Marie Kane, The Opportunity for Revision (D09)
  • Diane Kendig, Speaking of "Speaking of Maria Blanchard" (S10)
  • Laura Kolaczkowski, Stretching Myself (D13)
  • Tracy Koretsky, Seeking Enlightened Portrayals: Judging the Dolly Gray Award, Part 1 ( D08); Part 2 (M09); Giving it Away: A Report (D10)
  • Minter Krotzer Shaker or Freezer (M15)
  • 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); Ode to a Dog's Nose (M14)
  • Ellen LaFleche, Happily Ever After (D07)
  • Laurie Clements Lambeth, Marketing Disablity and the Integrity of the Poet (D10); Erasure as Reclamation (J212)
  • Katie Hae Leo, On disability, Adoption, and Passing (D13)
  • Stephanie Leonard, The Sickness (S11); …when not one bright star (M14)
  • Bill Levine, Meeting it Head On (D15)
  • Kathleen Levinstein, But You Don't Look Autistic (D15)
  • Jessica Lewis Luck, Disability, Poetry and Pedagogy (J10)
  • Raymond Luczak, Letter to Sean Penn (S09)
  • Bobbi Lurie, The Diagnosis (S11)
  • Sean Mahoney, Conditions (D14); Let's Take a Minute Out Here (J16)
  • Sally Martin, My Life with the Wolf (J08)
  • Emily Michael, Answering Blindness: A Poet Makes Amends (J14); Quartet Beyond Measure (J15); Stylish Negotiations (M16)
  • Leroy F. Moore, Jr., Krip-Hop Nation is Moore Than Music (J12)
  • Melissa Nicolas, On Jose Saramago's Blindness (D14)
  • Kerry Neville, Heart and Wings (M15)
  • Andrea Nicki, Psychological Disability Poetry, Mad Activism and Disability Publishing (D15)
  • 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); Inglis House Poetry Contest: One of a Kind (S15); Linda J. Cronin: A Backwards Glance at Her Work (J16)
  • Jessica Penner, Almost Right (J14)
  • Nick Pentzell, The Wheel Turns (D14); Response to Plankton Dreams (M16)
  • Barbara Perez, The Body is Everything (J14)
  • Peter Pingerelli, Classroom Gravity (D15)
  • 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); Percepts of Deafness From Henry Lawson's Poems (M14)
  • Dana Robbins, Playing Patty Cake with One Hand (M16)
  • Stuart Sanderson, A Meditation on Computers (S08); Amaryllis Theater (S09)
  • Nancy Scott (1), Blind Writer at Work (J10)
  • Dan Simpson, Line Breaks the Way I See Them (M07)
  • Chere 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)
  • Vayda Smith, Idiopathic (D13)
  • Peter Street, from Memoir (D11)
  • Osomun Sylvester, On Poetry (D07)
  • Lynne Thermann, Junkie-Overture with Repetition (J12)
  • Terry Tracy, Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (D12)
  • Michael Uniacke, Old MacDonald Had a Laugh (M14); The Truth That Brings Untold Stories from the Past (S14)
  • Claudia Vesterby, Two German Translations (D12)
  • Sharon Wachsler, Disability Culture (D08)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Poetry Fits My Body (S09)
  • Roy White, Walk Me to the Corner (M15)
  • Liz Whiteacre, Extending Conversations on Pain (M11); The Campus Wheelchair Project Poems (J16)
  • Ellen Williams, Masquerade (D08); Summer Goes to Sleep (S09); When Dreams Don't Come True (S10): Shortcuts to Serenity (M11)
  • Andre 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)
  • Saloua Ali Ben Zahra, Fatima vs. "The Cure" (M15); Speaking Volumes: The Bond in Deafness of an Iraq Father and Son

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Interviews

  • Christopher Ambolino, film maker (M11)
  • Trish Ayers, playwrite and poet (M08)
  • Jennifer Bartlett, poet (J11)
  • Lori Brozek and Marie Kane, editors of Pentimento (S14)
  • Mark Burnhope, poet and activist [interviewed by Laurie Clemens] S13)
  • Adrean Clark*, artist (M14)
  • Trish Ayers, playwrite and poet (M08)
  • John Lee Clark, poet and editor(J10)
  • Laura Cohen, creator of DISLABLED Philly film series (J15)
  • Eileen Cronin and T. K. Dalton, prose writers (M16)
  • 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)
  • Kenny Fries, Poet and Memoirist [interviewed by Rebecca Maskos] (S15)
  • Ana Garza G'z, poet and translator (J14)
  • S. Avis Gray and Andre LeMonte Wilson, short story writer and essayist (D13)
  • Beth Haller, media communications director (M15)
  • Therese Halsheid, essayist and poet (M14)
  • Laura Hershey, poet (D10)
  • Barry H.J. Horton* novelist and poet (D10)
  • Noria Jablonski, short story writer (M08)
  • Darolyn Jones and Liz Whiteacre, anthologists (M14)
  • Paul Kahn, poet and playwrite (S07)
  • Anne Kaier, memoirist and poet (M13)
  • Sarah Katz, poet (J16)
  • Erin Kelly, poet and columnist for Good Men Project (J15)
  • Jill Khoury, poet and editor (J15)
  • 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)
  • Karyn Lie-Nielsen , ASL translator and poet (M16)
  • Raymond Luczak, writer and Publisher of Handtype Press (D14)
  • Leah Maines, publisher of Finishing Line Books (D10)
  • Sean Mahoney, editor of Something on Our Minds (D09)
  • MaryAnn L. Miller, poet and artist ( S13)
  • Kobus Moolman, poet and playwrite ( D07)
  • Irie Parker, novelist S09)
  • Rusty Morrison, poet and editor (D12)
  • Scott Rains, travel writer and disability advocate (M14)
  • Nathan Say, performance poet (M12)
  • Nancy Scott, poet (S08)
  • Rachel Simon, novelist (D11)
  • Hal Sirowitz and Minter Krotzer, poet, essayist (S12)
  • Daniel Sluman, poet (M14)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith, editor and poet (J12)
  • Eliot Spindel, web designer (M12)
  • Christine Stark, novelist (D11)
  • Josette Todaro, director for Amarylis Theater (M08)
  • Tracy A. Todd and Sean J. Mahoney, anthology editors (D09)
  • Nancy and Peter Torpey, radio show hosts (M14)
  • Terry Tracy, novelist (J12)
  • Michael Uniacke, fiction writer, memoirist (D15)
  • Dawn Waller, Inglis House computer technology director (S10)
  • Jillian Weise, novelist and poet (M12)
  • Liz Whiteacre, poet (S10)
  • Gail Wilmott, editor of Kaleidoscope (D08)
  • Kathi Wolfe, poet (J14)
  • Saloua Ali Ben Zahra, Arabic language scholer (M16)
  • Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri, Information Specialist for Syracuse University (D13)
  • Sheila Black, Lydia Fecteau, Heather Garrison, Therése 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)
  • Jill Khoury, Emily Lund, Emily Michael and Kristen Witucki, dialogue on writing and visual disability (S14)
  • Andrea Nicki, Linda Benninghoff, Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, and Annamarie Johnson-Kwochka,dialogue on psychological disability poetry (D15)

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Photography, Visual Arts, and Music

  • John Bartley, Alex Lubet's Spectral Blues (D13)
  • Amanda Cachia, What Can a Body Do? (S12)
  • Adrean Clark, The Artifact series (M14)
  • 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)
  • Michelle Gage, A War Wherein, Op. 1 No. 4 (S14)
  • Kevin Gotkin, The Rupture Sometimes (D11)
  • Yvette Green, Our Film Project (S07)
  • Caitlin Hernandez, Magic in a Bottle (D14)
  • Dana Hirsch, Computer Art (D07)
  • Alexandra Kadlec, Raphaelle De Groot: Searching in the Space of Performances (M15)
  • Diane Kendig, Speaking Even More of Maria Blanchard ( M13)
  • Heather Kirk, The Exposed Series: Flowers on Black (M07); Bent Palm Seeries (J08)
  • Laurie Clements Lambeth, Graphic Memoir (S15)
  • Janet Lawson, The Dignity of Risk (D11)
  • Alex Lubet, What the Right Hand Doesn't Know… (S12)
  • Raymond Luczak, Review of the Film The Tribe (D11)
  • John Luttenberger III, Creating Braile Programs for Mendelssohn Club Concerts (M12)
  • Emily Michael, Designing the Parachorus (J15)
  • MaryAnn L. Miller, Screen Monotypes (S13)
  • Ilene Myers, Experiences in Digital Photography (D08)
  • Jan Napier, Creative Connections: Art Meets Poetry (D14)
  • Elijah Northen, Exploring Body Form (J07); Exploring Body Form - Part 2 (D08)
  • Michael Northen, Crossing the Threshold (J15)
  • Amy Ostreicher, Composing the Way Back from Coma (S15)
  • Nancy Rourke, Painting the Deaf Experience ( J14)
  • Stuart Sanderson, Computer Art (M10)
  • Peter Torpey , Playing Blind: The Peter Torpey Trio (M14)
  • Cynthia Weitzel, Art as Deaf Life Experience (S14)
  • Robert Woltanski, Painting: My Story (J09)
  • Anna Yarrow, Asleep/Awake (M14)
  • Saloua Ali Ben Zahra, Translating "When is the Spring" (M16)

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Book Excerpts

  • Trish Ayers, LUMPS [play] M08
  • Rebecca Chamaa, Pills, Poetry and Prose [essays and poetry] D15
  • Jonathan Chiccino, The Penumbra Chronicles [novel] S10
  • Norma Cole, To Be At Music [essays and talks] M12
  • Gretchen Henderson, Of Marvelous Things Heard [essays] D12
  • Caitlin Hernandez, Dreaming in Color [play] D14
  • Cynthia Hogue, In June, the Labyrinth [poetry] M08
  • B. J. Horton, Gemini Rising [novel] M14
  • 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; From Heart to Art [interviews] D14
  • Liv Mammone, To the Able-Bodied Poet Entering the Disability Poetics Workshop from QDA [poetry] D15
  • J. R. McRae, Free Passage [novel] D14
  • Rusty Morrison, Book of the Given [poetry] M12
  • Tito Mukhopadhyay, Plankton Dreams [memoir] M08
  • Tendai Mwanaka and Daniel da Purificacao, from Best "New" Poetry 2015 [poetry] M16
  • Shannon O'Connor, Jesus Needed Medication [novel] D13
  • John Pixley, Jury By Trial [play] D07
  • Adam Pottle, Mantis Dreams[novel] 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
  • Lizz Schumer, Buffalo Steel [novel] D13
  • Carol Smallwood, Lily's Odyssey [novel] S13
  • John Pixley, Jury By Trial [play] D07
  • Tamara Sellman, Ouroboros [essay] M16
  • Christine Stark, Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation [novel] S11
  • Leslie Swartz, Able Bodied [autobiography] D07
  • Brian Teare, The Empty FormGoes All the Way to Heaven [poetry] D07
  • Terry Tracy, A Great Place for a Seizure [novel] D13
  • Kathi Wolfe, The Uppity Blind Girl Poems [poetry] S14
  • Kristen Witucki, The Transcriber [young adult fiction] M14
  • Musa Zulu, The Language of Me [autobiography] S10

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Fiction

  • Timothy Allen, The Immigrant (J14) Leaping the Fence (D14)
  • Lee Amir, In a "Writing and Healing" Workshop, Bruce Eats Chocolate, Thinks Candy (S13)
  • Jimmy Burns, Killing Time Between Therapies (M12)
  • Kara Dorris, Littoral Drift (S13)
  • Anne Finger, Convalescence (S12)
  • Claire Forrest, The Business of Being in Love – Part 1 (M14); Part 2 (J14)
  • Alyssa Frierson, Playing in the Dark (M14)
  • Linda Fuchs, Choices (J15))
  • Greg Gibson, Thursday Morning Gardening Club - Part 1(S14); Part 2 (D14)
  • Kristen Harmon, What Lay Ahead: Part 1 (J15); Part 2 (S15); Part 3 (D15)
  • Faleeha Hassan, Granny (M15)
  • Chad MacDonald, Blow, Push, Blow (J16)
  • Sandy Olson Hill, Assisted Living (S12); Metaphors (D14)
  • Christopher Jon Heuer, Trauma (S13)
  • Beth Jellicoe, Amaris (M16)
  • 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)
  • Petra Kuppers, The Nursing Home (J14)
  • Lee Todd Lacks, Absolving Lynn (D15))
  • Emily Lund, Scribbles (J14)
  • Raymond Luczak, Scentless (M14); We Were Here First (J15)
  • Tendai Mwanaka, Breaking the Silence (S08)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith, Two Really Different Things (S12)
  • Shannon O'Connor*, Drowning in Cats (M13)
  • Kelley A Pasmanick , Capped (J15)
  • Susan M. Silver, I'll Be Looking at the Moon (S14)
  • 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); Re-Calculating – Part 2 (S13)
  • Paul Kahn, Into the Gray Zone (S12)

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Reading Loop

  • Bartlett, Jennifer (editor), A Cripping of Projective Verse (S13)
  • Bogle, Ann (editor), 1918, 1944, 1991 and Now (S14)
  • 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)
  • Hostovsky, Paul (editor), On Pink Gymnastic Tongues: Non-Diabled Writers Writing about Disability. Featuring Ellen Bryant Voight, Frank Gallimore, Barbara CRooker, Mark Haddon, Mark Halliday, Claudia Emerson, T. C. Boyle, Joanne Greenberg and Erin Belieu (M16)
  • Jackson, Andy (editor), Under My Skin I Have a Different Name. Featuring Aidan Coleman, Antony Ridell, and Mal McKimmie (M13)
  • Jyothsnaphanija (editor), Journey as a Metaphor: Voyaging the Poetry of Selected Indian Disabled Poets. Featuring Sant surdas, Raghunadhamma and Suryakamari Satyawada, Yasmin Sawheny, and Tito Mukhopadhyaya (D14)
  • Leto, Denise (editor), Mask, Pause, Mask: Somatics and the Language of Grief and Disability. Featuring Violet Juno and Norma Cole (M14)
  • Lewis, Victoria (editor), In Praise of Plays Not The Christmas Carol. Featuring James MacDonald, David Freeman, Lynn Manning, Mike Ervin, John Belluso, Susan Nussbaum and Kaite O'Reilly (M15)
  • McMullin, Sheila (editor), On Comics and Disability. Featuring Andrew Godfrey, ET (D15)
  • Moolman, Kobus (editor), Remembering the Body. Featuring Peter Esterhuysen and Lionel Abrahams (D13)
  • 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)
  • Northen, Michael (editor), Unsung Forerunners. Featuring Steven Parker, Stuart Sanderson, Diana Serviss, Mary Tisera, Laura Emerson, Yvette Green and Dana Hirsch. (J14)
  • Northen, Michael (editor), Referential Disability Poetry. Featuring Kathi Wolfe, Jim Ferris, Lisa Gill, Hal Sirowitz, Stephen Kuusisto, Des Kenny, Ana Garza G'z, and Andrea Nicki. (J16)
  • Shumer, Lizz (editor), If Beauty is A Verb, Why Aren't We Moving?  Featuring Kenny Fries Banu Kapil and Lisa Lutwyche (J15)
  • Simpson, Daniel (editor), The Trouble with I. Featuring Stephen Kuusisto, Lynn Manning, Nancy Scott, and David Simpson (D12)

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Responses

  • Kenny, Desmond and Michael Northen (editors), When I Consider John Milton. Including responses from Tasha Chemel, Ana Garza G's, Jill Khoury, Stephen Kuusisto, Ria Mead, Emily Michael, Andrew Sydlik and Kristen Witucki (S14)
  • G'z, Ana Garza and Adam Pottle (editors), Tiny Tim. Including responses from Mark Burnhope, Barbara Crooker, Lizz Schumer and Lori-Ann Tessier (D14)
  • Northen, Michael (editor), Tribute to Tobin Siebers. Including responses from Christopher Krentz, Petra Kuppers, Travis Lau, Alex Lubet and Carol Marfisi (M15)
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