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A long-form poem, I Hope Some Lass Will Want Me After Reading All This, followed in 1987. [12] He also started publishing his poems in several autism newsletters in the UK and US. In 1990, an excerpt of his long-form poem was published in an issue of The Advocate , the Autism Society of America 's newsletter.
"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability. The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome. As a testament to its popularity, several individuals have received ...
Prior to this, she worked in Edinburgh as a lecturer in an FE (further education) college and an education officer in local authority day services for people with learning disabilities. After moving to Shropshire, she worked first for the local authority and then to the voluntary sector, where she managed a staff team supporting people with ...
Dixon Hearne (born 1948) is an American educator and writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He has published an education text (Teaching Second-Language Learning with Learning Disabilities), four short story collections: Delta Flats: Stories in the Key of Blues and Hope; Plantatia: High-toned and Lowdown Stories of the South; Native Voices, Native Lands; and When Christmas was Real, and ...
In New York City, The Waterways Project was in the forefront of organizing poetry readings and small press book fairs. [2] The first Waterways poetry reading and book fair was held at the South Street Seaport Museum on July 4, 1979. [3] “The New York State Waterways Project grew out of a desire to present the artistry of the word in a novel ...
Laura Ann Hershey (August 11, 1962 – November 26, 2010) was a poet, journalist, popular speaker, feminist, and a disability rights activist and consultant. Known to have parked her wheelchair in front of buses, Hershey was one of the leaders of a protest against the paternalistic attitudes and images of people with disabilities inherent to Jerry Lewis's MDA Telethon. [1]
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born April 21, 1975) is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.
Her poetry includes themes of her love, affection, life sentiment, her disability and the closed village she cannot escape. [9] In November 2014, the poem magazine published her poems. [5] In January 2015, Yu's first anthology of poems, “The moonlight falls on my left hand (月光落在左手上 ）” was published by Guangxi Normal ...