Wordgathering

A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature

Volume 11     Issue 2     June 2017

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Poetry in this Issue

• Nancy R. Crocker, The 100% World
• Mike Ferguson, Sea Today; Doors
• Kathryn Jacobs, 4^th of July
• Tricia Knoll, The Green Shawl; Instructions on Holding Silence
• John C. Mannone Watching Annie Sign
• Lateef McLeod, Better Things to Do; I'm Too Pretty for Some Ugly Laws; A Smile for Strange Fruit
• Katherine Schneider, Hope of the Crow
• Jacob Stratman, Teaching Stigma
• Ann Thornfield-Long, Learning to Sign
• Dayna Troisi, Scribbled on an Envelope While the 1812 Overture Blares in the Background; Born This Way; Guilt

As in previous issues, each of the poems above is accompanied by an audio for the above poems. Unless otherwise indicated the poems are read by the poets themselves. Others are read by Wordgathering staff readers Sean Mahoney and Melissa Cotter.

In addition to the list above, much more poetry is to be found in this issue of Wordgathering. In the Essay section check out "Still Present Tense: The Poets of Beauty is a Verb" which includes work by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, John Lee Clark, Kara Dorris, Jim Ferris, Ona Gritz, Anne Kaier, Petra Kuppers, Stephen Kuusisto, Denise Leto, Raymond Luczak, Daniel Simpson, Hal Sirowitz, Ellen McGrath Smith, Jillian Weise, and Kathi Wolfe. In the Reading Loop, editor Michael Northen's "Ten More Poems to Kickstart Your Disabiity Lit Class," as the title promises, gives you work by ten more poets.

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