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Currently, he is in the process of writing a collection of prose poems for Copper Canyon Press entitled Mornings with Borges. He is also working on a set of political poems that address disability. Stephen also founded a foundation Kaleidoscope Connections LLC with his wife Connie which helps to raise awareness of disability.
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]
Arthur Alexander Banning (1921–1965) was an Australian lyric poet. Disabled from birth by cerebral palsy, he was unable to speak clearly or to write with a pen."Yet he overcame his handicap to produce poems which were often hauntingly beautiful and frequently ironic, and gave to other, younger poets a strong sense of the importance and value of their calling". [1]
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. [13]
July is Disability Pride Month — it's held that month to recognize the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990 — and there's a colorful and meaningful banner to ...
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 ...
The Council for Disability Awareness reports that 1 in 4 of today’s 20-year-olds will develop a disability before they retire. Buying disability insurance protects you and your loved ones from a ...
Moore is a co-founder of the disability performance art collective Sins Invalid. [5] [6] He currently serves as the Chair of the Black Disability Studies Committee for the National Black Disability Coalition. [7] [8] He co-authored a children's book called Black Disabled Art History 101. [9] [10]