Results for "Black, Sheila"

A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability. Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poe... Read More about Beauty Is a Verb

Firecracker Awards Finalist, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) When you're disabled, you don't have to be naked to be naked. "I remember I believed all my problems would be solved, if only I were beautiful. Then I was beautiful." --Jonathan Mack, from his story "The Right Way to be ... Read More about The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked: The Fiction of Disability: An Anthology

"In poems that beautify and destroy, Black's eighth book Radium Dream offers clear-eyed and equally complex conversations about the disabled body, family, violence, and the climate crisis. If, as Czeslaw Milosz writes, poetry is defined as 'a passionate pursuit of the real, ' then these poems pursu... Read More about Radium Dream

What is Wen Kroy? It is New York spelled backwards, and when people come to the city in their youth, how can it be anything but? Through these poems, we come to love and understand the hardships of being young and the difficulty of building a self. Sheila Black uses the city as a character in the di... Read More about Wen Kroy

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selves   Honest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and ... Read More about Writing the Self-Elegy: The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink