Preface: "A New Possible" Sheila Black Introduction: A History and Q&A Michael Northen, Camisha L. Jones, Travis Chi Wing Lau, Naomi Ortiz I. Intimacies and Interdependence Naomi Ortiz Essay: "To Reclaim Power" "Benefaction" "Y2K Philadelphia (That time we met)" "Shelter Is a Privilege (one & two)" "To the Non-Disabled White Grrrl with the Frida Kahlo Altar in the Living Room" Liv Mammone Essay: "Art Object, Talisman" "Surgery Psalm" "Reinventing the Scale" "A Crip Is" Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Essay: "Why We Do This Thing Called Disability Justice Writing" "I know crips live here" "Bad road" "Adaptive device" Ekiwah Adler-Belendez Essay: "On Writing ''I Bargained For This Wheelchair"" "The Speed of Sound: Skydiving from one life to another" / "La velocidad del sonido: Saltando de una vida a otra" "Falling into Truth" / "En Verdad Caer" Jay Besemer Essay: "PERMEABLE" "eleven" "Where the Loved Ones Go" Viktoria Valenzuela Essay: "My Fibromyalgia, Like My Poetry, Is a Response to Trauma" "The Scent of a Battle" "Thank You to the Dust" "Nightly News" Osimiri Sprowal Essay: "A QueerCrip Reflection on Intimacy and Boundary Building" "Hearth: A QueerCrip Break-up Manifesto" Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison Essay: "A Place That''s Ours" "Dear M--" "Dear S--" "Dear M--" "Dear S--" "Dear M--" "Dear S--" Rachel Scoggins Essay: "The Magic Consortium of Poetic Disabled Lives" "Guide to Magic Helium" "Vivid Dreams" Daniel Sluman Essay: "Suspended Disability and the importance of Disability poetry" "my love is sponsored by the warmth of opiates" "& this is love" II. Language Shahd Alshammari Essay: "Navigating a Hijacked Body with Two Tongues" "Public Disgrace" "Meaninglessness" DJ Savarese Essay: "Squawking Joy and Mayhem" "The Librarian in the Trees" "Swoon" "Tongue" torrin a. greathouse Essay: "Poems with Bodies Like Mine" "Weeds" "Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination Before a Diagnosis Can Be Determined" " That''s So Lame " "Essay Fragment: Economic Model of Disability" Jessica Stokes Essay: "all the floors I know too well from trying not to trip are one thick memory" "New Shoes" Gaia Thomas Essay: "Hold It against me" "V" "VI" Ilya Kaminsky Essay: "Reading Celan in Ukraine" "That Map of Bone and Open Valves" "In a Time of Peace" Constance Merritt Essay: "Some Notes on a (Dis)/Embodied Poetics" "Jay-Walkin Blues" "Revelation Blues" "Less Than Greater Than Blues" III. Ableism Aurora Levins-Morales Essay: "The Why and the How: Disability Justice Poetics" "Poem for the Bedridden" "Asher Yatzar" Roxanna Bennett Essay: "You Were Born, Ergo, I Love You" "What do you do for a living?" "Wherever You Go, There You Are" Meg Day Essay: "T-I-M-B-E-R" "Deaf Erasure of the Gospel According to the TSA Agent at Atlanta International" "Elegy in Translation" "10am Is When You Come to Me" Stephen Lightbown Essay: "Searching for Dignity" "AFTER THE CHECK IN" "GROUNDED" Lateef McLeod Essay: "How Poetry Can Evoke Empathy and Meaning" "Absence of routine" "So Much" Jill Khoury Essay: "Unimagined Possibilities" "Cranial Nerve II" "AN OBJECT APPROACHES THE I" "[rotary nystagmus]" Kay Ulanday Barrett Essay: "We Will Buoy Each Other" "Sick 4 Sick" "I use the word Disabled" "In which your white doctor informs you that he was in the Navy & based in the Philippines" "consider the gender spectrum" Raymond Antrobus Essay: "Is There a Right Way to Act Deaf [Captioned]" "Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris" "The Mechanism of Speech" "The Acceptance" IV. Medicalization Stephanie Heit Essay: "Disability as a Creative Practice" "Treatment Room" "Recovery Bay" "Dear Brain," Emilia Nielsen Essay: "A Note on the Poetry and Poetics of Dissonant Disabilities" "Tremors" "Emotional Lability" "Polyphagia" "Hypertensive" Travis Chi Wing Lau Essay: "The Crip Poetics of Pain" "Treatment" "On the Anniversary of an X-Ray" "Brain Fog" "Pithy" Kelly Davio Essay: "A Little Pocket for Rage" "I May Appear Drunk" "He Died after a Long Illness" "Etymological Note" Camisha L. Jones Essay: "Poetry, Self-Advocacy, and Survival" "Accommodation" "Ménière''s Flare" "In/Ability" "My Hearing Loss Interrogates the World" Jesse Rice-Evans Essay: "I Want to Feel Like Home" "Pills" "All I''m looking for is a ceremony" V.
Journeys and Becomings Andy Jackson Essay: "Broken Lines and Belonging" "Quasimodo" "Double Helix" Rigoberto González Essay: "The Man with the Cane" "To the Man Who Walks with a Cane" "The Trees Keep Weeping Long after the Rain Has Ended" Cath Nichols Essay: "It''s a Bit Like This" "Tender spots" Eli Clare Essay: "Turning Toward Each Other" "Confluence" "A Survivor''s Wail" L. Lamar Wilson Essay: "''I Wouldn''t Help It Even If I Could''" "I Can''t Help It" "Legion: Human Immunodeficiency Virus" Emily K. Michael Essay: "The Blood and Candor of Craft" "Faith" "Among the Blind" "Deficiencies" Natalie E. Illum Essay: "If you are Disabled, and there is an [INSERT], you [???]." "What the brain hemorrhage says" "If you are Disabled and there is a bomb cyclone, you" Liz Whiteacre Essay: "Playing Poetic Telephone to Explore Pain in Poems" "Pain Pouts" "The Stoic''s Universe" Kobus Moolman Essay: "The Poetics of Falling: an overview" "The Shoulder" "Three Views of a Pair of Orthopedic Boots" "In the Bathroom".