Versus Versus: 100 Poems

July 9, 2026

In “poems that refuse containment, that arrive in waves, splintering, alive,” 100 Deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent writers from around the world give grammar to the “illness” of being out of place with Ableist norms. The African poets are in dialogue with the malaise of memory and bodily unrest, a discourse still thin across the continent.

July 9, 2026

In “poems that refuse containment, that arrive in waves, splintering, alive,” 100 Deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent writers from around the world give grammar to the “illness” of being out of place with Ableist norms. The African poets are in dialogue with the malaise of memory and bodily unrest, a discourse still thin across the continent.

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