Michael Northen, Sheila Black, and Jennifer Bartlett

Michael Northen, Sheila Black, and Jennifer Bartlett are poets and co-editors of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press), which was named a 2012 Notable Book for Adults by the American Library Association. Michael Northen edits Wordgathering, a journal of disability poetry and literature. Sheila Black’s most recent book is Wen Kroy. Jennifer Bartlett’s most recent book is Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography.

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The Making of Beauty Is a Verb and the Spiritual Body

By Michael Northen, Sheila Black, and Jennifer Bartlett | October 20, 2014

Considering our society from a disability perspective forces the question of why we seem so bent on forging a society in which so many are marginalized, stigmatized, or deemed somehow unworthy.