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Singing Our Joy: A Reading by Neurodivergent Poets

Room 3501 EF, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 3
Saturday, February 10, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am

 

Neurodivergent poets face many challenges and still we hold joy. Our different rhythms are too often viewed as wrong, bad, inappropriate, uncaring, lazy, childish, pointless, and more. With our whole selves we disagree, and with our poems we resist and dismantle such negative framing. We sing our joy. This event features five neurodivergent poets who will be reading toward the depths of neurodivergent joy.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Singing_Our_Joy-_A_Reading_by_Neurodivergent_Poets.pdf
Supplemental Document 1: Ina_Cariño_-_AWP_2024_Panel_Poems.pdf
Supplemental Document 2: Nathan_Spoon_reading_for_Singing_Our_Joy.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Nathan Spoon is an autistic poet whose poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Poetry Daily, swamp pink, and The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays. He is author of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded (forthcoming in the Propel Disability Poetry Series).

Addie Tsai (any/all) has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in dance from Texas Woman's University. Addie teaches creative writing at William & Mary. They are the author of Dear Twin and Unwieldy Creatures.

Leslie McIntosh (all pronouns respectfully used) is Black, male presenting, male attracted, autistic, an older millennial, a poet, and a fictionist. Leslie's work has appeared in numerous publications such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Foglifter, Obsidian, Split This Rock, Witness, and elsewhere.

Angela Peñaredondo is the author of nature felt but never apprehended (Noemi Press), All Things Lose Thousands of Times, winner of Inlandia Institute’s Hillary Gravendyk Book Prize, and the chapbook Maroon (Jamii Publishing). Their works can be found on Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, and others.

Ina Cariño holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in Apogee, Wildness, Waxwing, New England Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for their manuscript Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books.

#AWP24

February 7–10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Convention Center