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3 sty 2022 · Crip ecologies, crip time, crip ingenuity, crip spirit radically aim to question root systems that keep our imaginations limited and starved. How can we channel joy within our own skins before there is the stethoscope, the specialist’s jackhammered interrogation, before all the stigma we battle?
2 sty 2022 · I assemble words and sensations, impressions and unexpected pathways, often in attention to the minor key, the tiny detail. I write about dragonfly nymph husks on a lake deck, or about half-torn leaflets for dance competitions in a movement studio, about rocks in my hand and bricks in windows.
These poems were selected for their ease of understanding, their clear representation of various poetic techniques, and their interesting historical backgrounds. If you’re looking for a powerful, but easy, poem to analyze, this article is for you.
Crip poetics is a school of poetry that resists an ableist tradition of body representation in favor of explicitly turning to lived disabled experiences. As defined by poet Jim Ferris, crip poetics "embodies a disability consciousness; it is informed by and contributes to disability culture."
7 sty 2019 · “Crip poetry’s” challenges to the tropes of disability that engender pity have “the potential to transform the world” by reframing the “gaze…under which we are viewed” and by imagining new spaces for disability consciousness.
Here, we explore a collection of poignant poems that offer profound insights into disability awareness. Índice. "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. Excerpt: "The Crip Who Loves to Sing" by Leroy Moore. Excerpt: "Miracle Worker" by Rives. Excerpt: "Crutches" by Shane Koyczan.
5 maj 2020 · As activism and self-reclamation, crip culture poetry insists on shaping and reshaping ways of thinking, using words as the powerful tools they are.
