More Poetry Sites for Writers With Disablities

• Breath & Shadow, edited by Sharon Wachsler, is a growing online magazine that deserves attention. It is the only online magazine produced totally by writers with disabilities. The successss of B&S has lead to the nomination of six of the magazine's contributors to be nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize. Poetry editor Linda Cronin has been a consistant suporter of the IH Poetry Workshop. In addition to B&S Wachsler also maintains a unique website for disability humor, Sick Humor.
• Are you interested in blogging about disability and poetry? If so, take a look at Dispoet, a blog that reflects on disability poetics, the work of contemporary disabled poets and related topics. Sheila Black, Dan Simpson, Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Stuart Sanderson and other poets published by IHPoetry are featured.
• Wordgathering is a new online poetry journal dedicated to publishing poetry about disability and by writers with disabilities. It also includes some essays, book reviews and interviews.
• Inglis House poet Dana Hirsh's work has been featured in Audacity magazine, is an online magazine dedicated solely to the work of writers with disabilities.
• Kobus Moolman, editor of Fidelities, invites contributors to the IH Poetry publications to him at:
     P. O. Box 22451/   Southgate/  3200/  KwaZulu-Natal/  South Africa
  IH contributors Therese Halsheid, Liesl Jobson and Michael Northen are among the recent poets included in Fidelities.Moolman is also the editor an anthology of disability poetry and prose for the South African Government.
• If you are a writer with disabilities or are interested in writers with disabilties, check out Mindprints, a quarterly magazine from Allan Hancock College. Mindprints is currently seeking submissions. Click here to take a look.
• The Disability Studies Quarterly, the major journal of the Disability Studies movement accepts both poetry and fiction. Poetry can be sent to editor Johnson Cheu at cheu@msu.edu. Of particular interest in a recnt issue of DSQ is Petra Kuppers' "Disability Culture Poetry: The Sound of the Bones. A Literary Essay."
• My Body of Knowledge is an online anthology of disability and health-related poetry interesting for it notes on contributors. You may want to query before submitting work.

Sites Featuring Work of Our Contributors

• Poet Therese Halscheid is a frequent contributor, workshop leader and advocate for the Inglis House Poetry Workshop. Since the publication of her book Uncommon Geography she now maintains her own website. Take a look at her great writing.
• Patricia Wellingham-Jones whose poem "Don't turn Away" received an Honorable Mention in the 2003 poetry contest has produced a chapbook of the same name dealing with issues surrounding breast cancer. Copies of Don't turn Away can be ordered at www.wellinghamjones.com
• Suzie Siegels "Sarcoma Series" can be seen at Liddy Shiver Sarcoma initiative.
• More poetry by Inglis House Poet Mary Tisera can be seen on her new website at Mary's Poetry Website.
• A frequent contributor to the Inglis House poetry workshop, Barbara Crooker's work often deals with the issues of autism that are part of her and her son's life.
• Anna Evans is the publisher of The Barefoot Muse, an online magazine that seeks formal poetry. Anna's own poetry can be read on her personal website .
• J. C. Todd edits the online poetry journal The Drunken Boat. This is a by invitation only journal, but Todd's writing and translations can often be seen there. They can also be seen in the webmagazine Wild River Review.
• Contributor Andrena Zawinski is the features editor for PoetryMagazine.com, an online literary magazine in which her interviews and photography frequently appear.
• Poet and Activist Laura Hershey’s Crip Commentary was one of the first websites devoted writing of disability poetry.
• If you read no other essay on disability poetry, read Jim Ferris’ “The Enjambed Body.” If it does not awaken in you to explore the potentialities of disability poetry, nothing will.
• Poet Stephen Kuusisto now has a new blog where you have a chance to leave your personal comments.
• Heather Kirk is not only a poet but a photographer. See both aspects of her work on her website.
• Tracy Koretsky is the author of Ropeless, a novel that explores several types of disability from different vantage points. She is also an editor for the ezine Triplopia which, like Inglis House, has published work by Crooker and Zawinski. Check out their work.

Other Sites Worth Checking Out

• The Poetry Workshop recommends Chimera Travel, a customized travel service meeting individual, group and corporate needs in trip and travel planning. Chimera Travel can be contacted at maya@chimera-travel.com or click on www.chimera-travel.com
• Interview with Inglis poets' work in film can be seen by checking out The Dream Alliance.
• Founded in Philadelphia in 1877, Inglis House is a specialty nursing care facility for 297 adults with physical disabilities. Services at Inglis House include long-term, rehabilitative medical and nursing care; physical, occupational and speech therapies; and social enrichment programs including computer and education therapy, vocational rehabilitation, therapeutic recreation and religious programs. Inglis House is a non-profit subsidiary of Inglis Foundation, which works with people with physical disabilities to create and provide practical solutions so they may pursue their life goals. To learn more about Inglis House click on visit www.inglis.org.

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