Disability Poetry

The Disabled World Disability Poems section is an area where non-disabled writers as well as writers with disabilities can submit their poems for publishing and exchanges of ideas. Poems in this category focus on disability and health issues.

When dealing with a disability, you look for things to hold onto. Sometimes words are all we have, and the words contained within poetry often help those with health issues and/or disabilities through hard times.

Disabled World seeks to help develop the field of disability literature by publishing and promoting poetry by poets with disabilities and poems that counteract stereotypes about disability. In addition Disabled World invites work that discusses poetry from a disability perspective or further addresses themes related to disability and contributes to the development of the field of disability literature and poetry. At present very little writing about disability literature is available.

From a recent article on the Wordgathering website:

"Disability poetry can be recognized by several characteristics: a challenge to stereotypes and an insistence on self-definition; foregrounding of the perspective of people with disabilities; an emphasis on embodiment, especially atypical embodiment; and alternative techniques and poetics."

For the unitiated or those who just want to try get a basic grasp of what disability poetry is and what it seeks to offer, the poems listed below are a good place to start. If you would like to have your poem(s) included in this category please contact us

Further Information Regarding Disability Poetry

Autism and Journey - Someday Soon
A lyrical response to the, "I Am Autism," video clip that is far more positive.