Five pioneers of disability poetry in a reading and moderated Q&A that expresses different strains of disability poetics. From the anticolonial to the queer celebratory, disabled voices are charting a poetics of liberation that illuminates the intersectionality of body and identity and the forms of social control and oppression that seek to correct or silence disabled bodies. Together, these four poets will explore, to quote Kay Ulanday Barrett, “the potentiality in being multiple embodiments."

Published Date: March 25, 2022