An insightful review by a keenly sensitive critic, Editor-in-Chief A.R. Arthur - - who introduces us to the powerful voice of a poet, born disabled and challenged in many ways, whose life has been tutored by a loss, and whose plainspoken verses need to be better known.
Here is an excerpt from Jennifer Ruth Jackson's poem "The Word Is Disabled" - -
. . . For existing, I pay a higher tax than you.
Stairs keep me out of businesses more than locks.
I am that wheelchair, no name or gender
when you talk about the space I take
that you could have.
Thank you, Fahmidan Journal and A.R. Arthur. I'm speechless with awe.
An insightful review by a keenly sensitive critic, Editor-in-Chief A.R. Arthur - - who introduces us to the powerful voice of a poet, born disabled and challenged in many ways, whose life has been tutored by a loss, and whose plainspoken verses need to be better known.
Here is an excerpt from Jennifer Ruth Jackson's poem "The Word Is Disabled" - -
. . . For existing, I pay a higher tax than you.
Stairs keep me out of businesses more than locks.
I am that wheelchair, no name or gender
when you talk about the space I take
that you could have.
Thank you, Fahmidan Journal and A.R. Arthur. I'm speechless with awe.