Journal of Literary Disability
by Sean McGahey
Disability and/as Poetry
Edited by Jim Ferris and David Bolt
The Journal of Literary Disability will be launched in the U.K. at the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network, Liverpool John Moores University, May 26-27, 2007. The first issue will consist of the following articles:
Introduction
David Bolt
Disability Haunting in American Poetics
Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell
Icarus, Gods, and the ‘Lesson’ of Disability
Nicole Markotic
Outsides: Disability Culture Nature Poetry
Petra Kuppers
Les Poses de l‘Incompris reprises: Corbière, Caricature, and Critical Illness
Tammy Berberi
Josephine Miles’s Crip(t) Words: Gender, Disability, “Doll”
Sue Schweik
The Poetry of Dementia: Art, Ethics, and Alzheimer’s disease in Tony Harrison’s Black Daisies for the Bride
Lucy Burke
Auto-Graphein or ‘The Blind Man’s Pencil’: Notes on the Making of a Poem
Stephen Kuusisto and Petra Kuppers
Against Rhythm: Poetry in Uncommon Time
Jim Ferris
The first issue of JLD will be freely available online from May 26, 2007.
www.journalofliterarydisability.com