John Lee Clark

DeafBlind. Protactile. National Magazine Award. WHERE I STAND (Handtype, 2014), HOW TO COMMUNICATE: POEMS (Norton, 2022), TOUCH THE FUTURE (Norton, 2023).

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Listen to Simone Person read “Awkwafina Clarifies That She’s Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)”
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Read today’s #PoemADay: “Awkwafina Clarifies That She’s Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)” by Simone Person
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“I created this poem as part of a larger project detailing—through an imagined lens of non-Black celebrities—how anti-Blackness operates as social currency.”

—Simone Person
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we should all be so lucky to be this well-loved. we’ll live forever
tendered underneath the warmth of her sun. she is rebuilding our house

in a better glory.

—Simone Person
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@princxporkchop @POETSorg Thank you for creating new idioms, forms, realms. Fabling, realing, magicing!

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“I thought: we disabled people need more poems about love between activists. So I wrote this one.”

—The Cyborg Jillian Weise
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Listen to The Cyborg Jillian Weise read “Snow Globe of Denver”
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@jillianweise Over the snow glove moon to have your poem out today!

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across the nation accessible and were
arrested and were arrested again
this time for asking the question

“May we speak to Senator Gardner?”
and were jailed for three days and three nights

—The Cyborg Jillian Weise
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across the nation accessible and were
arrested and were arrested again
this time for asking the question

“May we speak to Senator Gardner?”
and were jailed for three days and three nights

—The Cyborg Jillian Weise
#PoemADay

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Listen to “Marie Bashkirtseff Said” by Annie Charlotte Dalton
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Read today’s #PoemADay: “Marie Bashkirtseff Said” by Annie Charlotte Dalton

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“[Annie Charlotte] Dalton presents [us with] an embattled, misunderstood, and assaulted figure [. . .] and enters into the fray not only in her defense but also by joining her in the self-defense she had already initiated.”

—John Lee Clark
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Listen to “The Music of Beauty” by James Nack
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Read today’s #PoemADay: “The Music of Beauty” by James Nack

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Of the untruths told in vain;
Of the voiceless bird and beast,
Of the songless, laughless feast,
Of the mind to madness spurred,
Never a word!

—Annie Charlotte Dalton
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To me thy lips are mute, but when I gaze
Upon thee in thy perfect loveliness,—
No trait that should not be—no lineament
To jar with the exquisite harmony
Of Beauty’s music, breathing to the eyes,
I pity those who think they pity me;

—James Nack
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“Published in 1827 [. . .] this poem is the first of an enduring trope in Deaf poetry, one that expresses disdain for, even mockery of, hapless and ignorant hearing people.”

—John Lee Clark
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“With the veil between life and death being so necessarily thin for me on account of my disease, I find myself contemplating legacy quite often, and not always with a pure heart.”

—Brian Koukol
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Listen to “Necromancy for the Bitter” by Brian Koukol
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