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“Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature” The Spring 2021 issue is now online via Wordgathering website. The 57th issue of this open-access digital quarterly journal is made possible by the generous support of Syracuse University Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI), headquartered at the College of Law, and Syracuse University Libraries.
Image by Chanika Svetvilas titled “What I Learned (Psychiatric Nursing)”.
“Word collection” provides an accessible venue to showcase the work of emerging and well-known disabled writers engaged in poetry, literature and the arts of disability.
This academic year marked the 30th anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach team, working with Law College Audiovisual Media Specialist Kyle Jaymes Davis, created an accessible video production of “A Crip Reckoning: Reflections on the ADA @ 30”, with an accompaniment resource guide created by Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri, administrative assistant.
The video, complete with American Sign Language interpretation, English captioning, and image descriptions, features a distinguished panel of opinion leaders with disabilities and academic activists discussing ableism, cultural change, equity, creativity and intersectionality in the context of ADA’s 30th anniversary. The panel was moderated by Stephen Kuusisto, university professor and director of the Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute. Poetry is a major theme inside and occurs several times throughout the video.
Diane R. Wiener, Editor-in-Chief and Research Professor and Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach, says: “There is a pragmatic magic for me to have the opportunity to point out that this issue marks 15 years since ‘Word collection’ opened its accessible digital doors to the world. It’s a world that has become increasingly digital and virtual, but not as accessible as many of us would prefer and, in fact, demand. I am moved and grateful for the consistent ethics, good humor, great generosity of spirit and boundless kindness of the members of our editorial team, because each of us does (and does) our best to live, create, loving and working deeply in the non-idealized ‘new world in the making’, one year after COVID-19. I remain deeply grateful for the continued and exceptional support of the collaboration of my esteemed colleagues at Syracuse University – Kate Deibel, Patrick Williams and Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri. “
