Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?
Early on I didn’t think elements relating to identity could be the subject of poetry. When I was younger I never saw myself or people like me - disabled, queer, bilingual - reflected in the work we studied. The disabled body and disability experience in particular never seemed worthy of poetry. When I was finally introduced to disability poetics, and to the study of gender and sexuality, it opened up the world to me. Poetry expanded from language, psychology, and imagery to include experience, identity, and the political.
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