T238.
Happy Neuroqueering: A Reading by Neuroqueer Poets
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:20 pm
Neuroqueer poets write poems amazingly expressive of their divergent selves and shaped by the practice of neuroqueering. Think of e.e. cummings, who was dyslexic, jumbling words and scattering letters across a page. Neuroqueer poets are expanding the boundaries of poetic communication and intention in ways that are disruptive, vital, and celebratory. This panel brings together three autistic poets (Jai Hamid Bashir, Hilary Brown, and Nathan Spoon) and an OCD poet (K. Iver).
Participants
Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet with learning disabilities whose poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Columbia Journal, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and the anthology How to Love the World. He is the author of a debut collection, Doomsday Bunker, and editor of Queerly.
Jai Hamid Bashir has been published by the American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, the Adroit Journal, Wildness, Cortland Review, Guernica magazine, Academy of American Poets, and others. https://www.jaihamidbashir.com/
Hilary Brown is the Pushcart-nominated author of When She Woke She Was an Open Field. Their work has appeared in the Labletter, apt, and the Ocotillo Review among others. They're a queer disability activist living in Oakland, California.
K. Iver is a nonbinary poet from Mississippi. They received a PhD in poetry at Florida State University. Their work has appeared in Boston Review, BOAAT, Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. They are the 2021–2022 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow for the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
