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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]
However, the references to light and darkness in the poem make it virtually certain that Milton's blindness was at least a secondary theme. The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e but adheres to the Miltonic conception of the form, with a greater usage of enjambment.
John Lee Clark (born 1978) is an American deafblind poet, writer, and activist from Minnesota.He is the author of Suddenly Slow (2008) and Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience (2014), and the editor of anthologies Deaf American Poetry (2009) and Deaf Lit Extravaganza (2013).
Jim Ferris was born with what he describes as a "mobility impairment." [1] His actual disability was that one leg grew shorter than the other.He was born in Cook County, Illinois, not far from Chicago where he later attended a school for crippled children. [2]
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 ...
Stephen Kuusisto is an American poet who is known for his work on depicting disabilities, specifically blindness. He is a professor at Syracuse University, where he teaches poetry and creative non-fiction.
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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.