it’s here . published 3/22, as part of Poets.org’s The Future Lives In Our Bodies poetry of disability justice 2022 intitiative, and containing work by Raymond Antrobus, Jody Chan, Meg Day, Qwo-Li Driskill, torrin a. greathouse, Camisha Jones, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Aurora Levins Morales, and Audre Lorde. my intro:
“The poems in this folio are but a small selection of the vast array of disabled, d/Deaf, neurodivergent, and/or chronically ill poets out there. Because disability justice is a framework created by and centering the lives and issues of Black, Indigenous and People of Color, Queer, Trans and Two-Spirit disabled people, I chose to select poems by poets from those very groups.
The poets included here span generations. From Audre Lorde, who lived and worked as a Black-lesbian-feminist-mother-warrior-poet, and who also wrote deeply from her own experiences with disabilities—legal blindness and cancer; to poets like Aurora Levins Morales and Qwo-Li Driskill, who first broke ground in the modern ways of disability-justice poetry in the early 2000s; and finally to poets working and creating the disability justice writing renaissance we are seeing now. We learn from each other and write to and with each other across generations. We claim and find disabled ancestors. We make our lineages.
These poems may have what you need. They pick the locks of prison cell isolation, sing and stim and sign us home. They name a disabled past and create a thriving disabled future.”