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Johnson is co-founder and poetry editor of Deaf Poets Society literary magazine, which was created in 2016 to specifically center works by writers with disabilities and those who are d/Deaf. [6] [1] The magazine was developed with accessibility in mind, such as providing works in various formats including text, audio, and images. [6]
She graduated from Barnard College and received her master's degree from the University of Montana. [2]. Teaching part-time at New Mexico State University and also working as Development Director for the Colonias Development Council, Sheila Black continues to write poetry, recently becoming co-editor of Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability with Jennifer Bartlett and Mike Northen.
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).
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[16] and on the Board of Governors of the Poetry Society of America (PSA). [17] As of 2018, he is a member of The Center for Fiction Writers Council [18] and serves on the board of Zoeglossia: A Community for Poets with Disabilities. On December 6, 2016, González was celebrated for his work and literary activism at Poets House. [19]
In 2009 Hopkins was awarded the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children for his lifetime body of work. [9] In 2010, he was awarded a Florida Lifetime Achievement Award by the Southwest Florida Reading Festival, and in 2011 he received the Award for Excellence in Educational Leadership from the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA).
The role promotes the importance of children’s literature, reading, creativity and storytelling while promoting the right of every child to enjoy a lifetime of books and stories. Each Laureate uses their tenure to focus on an aspect of children’s books – these have included poetry, storytelling, readers with disabilities and illustration.
After teaching disabled children for several years, Little wrote her first children's novel, Mine for Keeps, about a child with cerebral palsy. [1] It won the Little, Brown Canadian Children's Book Award and was published in 1962. She has subsequently written over 50 published works, which include novels, picture books, poetry, short stories ...