Wordgathering

A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature
 

Volume 13     Issue 1     March 2019

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Poetry in this Issue

• Kylie Bean, Still Life; Alphabet Soup
• Bradley Buchanan, Eyes Sewn Shut; My Pockets
• Nathan Erwin, To Ashely
• Jim Ferris, At the Conference on Poetry and Medicine
• Tricia Knoll, In Praise of the Barred Owl
• Brian Koukol, They Call Me Wheelchair-Bound
• Cade Leebron, Hello This is Your Captain Speaking
• Ruth Li, Vine
• Doug May, Borderlands; The Vampire's Reflection
• Shane Neilson, The Stigma-Theory
• Nancy Scott, Confessions
• Saloua Ali Ben Zahra, The Raisin in the Mesfouf

Each of the poems above is accompanied by an audio version. Most of the poems are read by the poets themselves, but a few have been recorded for Wordgathering by readers Amelia Cotter, Sean Mahoney and Kristen Milosh.

In addition to the poems above two of the essays in this issue contain poetry. The first is a sample of the work of one of the earliest Deaf American poets, Laura Redden in Karen Christie's essay. The other is the essay on the Disability Literature Consortium reading, which contains sample poems from the poets who will be present and reading for that event including Susanne Antonetta, Jennifer Bartlett, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Cade Leebron, Raymond Luczak, and Dora Raymaker.

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