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Opinion|‘Make No Apologies for Yourself’

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‘Make No Apologies for Yourself’

Are we writing for other disabled people, for the nondisabled, or for everyone? The work of these poets speaks for itself.

May 19, 2019

Sheila Smith, “Untitled” (2017), acrylic on canvas. Descriptive caption: An abstract landscape painted in broad strokes of blue, orange, red, with strings of floating dots in the foreground. Sheila Smith was born and raised in Patterson, Arkansas. She joined Project Onward in 2014 and lives in Oak Park.Credit…Courtesy of the artist and Project Onward

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By Khadijah Queen and Jillian Weise

Ms. Queen and Dr. Weise are poets.

The seven poems you will find here below, as well as seven others that will follow in a second post, were curated by us over the past several months, and represent only a small segment of poets with disabilities writing vital, engaged and powerful work today. To arrive here, we asked many disabled poets to [...]