HA&L magazine issue twelve.2 cover

HA&L Canadian Dis/Ability Poetics Issue IMAGINARY SAFE HOUSE   Paintings by bill bissett • Detail: mattawa dreem. Photo by Michael Cobb. My Arrival at Crip: Poetic Histories of Disability, Neurodivergence and Illness in Tkaronto/Taranton/Toronto, 1995-2007 by Sandra Alland • Image detail: 3 wize peopul by bill bissett.   Imaginary Safe House: Introduction Part I by Guest Editor Shane Neilson Introduction Part II by Guest Editor Roxanna Bennett Introduction Part III by Guest Editor Ally Fleming My Arrival at Crip: Poetic Histories of Disability, Neurodivergence and Illness in Tkaronto/Taranton/Toronto, 1995-2007 by Sandra Alland The Secret Handshake -A Hidden Gem in Kensington Market by Sofia Ariza Q and A with bill bissett at The Secret Handshake by Sofia Ariza Portfolio: paintings by bill bissett Poetry: Boogie Street Minstrel by Leo Dragtoe Notes Toward an Essay on Poetry & Family Relationships in a Few Canadian Poets by Stephanie Yorke Notes From a Grieving Mother by Dorothy Bakker Poetry: Throw a party for my life, my death by Stephen Emslie Leaving the Light On by Anita Dolman Poetry: a day's strategies for shrunken working memory by Pearl Pirie Poetry: “I, the unspiritual” by Carla Harris Poetry: even the idea of maya is maya by Stuart Ian McKay Toward a Poetics of Stuckness: Poetry, Mental Disability, and Crisis by Andrew McEwan Poetry: Ex Nihilo: Nine Uneasy Steps to a PhD by Concetta Principe On Place and Promise by Leanne Toshiko Simpson Poetry: (Cooling bathwater) by John Luna Poetry: Effects by Erin Soros Poetry: catalogues in the winter by Bára Hladík My Body Exists in Another Language by Dominik Parisien Poetry: Geology by S.K.Y Varnam Fucking Crazy: On Complex Trauma, Surviving Sexual Violence, and Living My Best Slut Life by Clementine Morrigan Poetry: Bus Circle At Night by Annie Lepage Poetry: Less sweet than chocolate or concrete by Aimee Louw Too Pretty To Be In a Wheelchair: On Beauty and Disability by Sue Sinclair Poetry: THE LONELY LAWS ] HMMMM [ by nancy viva davis halifax Poetry Review: Cybernetic Slam Poetry and the Poetics of Gossip: Sarah Burgess’ The Mule and the Bitch by Terry Trowbridge Poetry Review: Aspirational, Anti-ableist Poetics: Karuna Vellino's A Year in Violets by Terry Trowbridge ALSO SEE THE LATEST in HA&L RAVE: more Reviews, Writing, and Poetry! CHECK OUT the 2nd Annual AbleHamilton Poetry Festival! Oct. 24 - Nov. 3, 2019 - Hamilton, Guelph, and Toronto. JOIN US for HA&L's 11th Anniversary at the Art Gallery of Hamilton: November 1, 7pm. JOIN US for the The Short Works Prize  Writing Awards, November 24, 2019! BECOME A MEMBER!  RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP! Help HA&L to continue publishing! “Disability and its many intersections amplify the gaps in privilege that determine who is heard, who is seen and whose experiences are considered universal.” ― Leanne Toshiko Simpson “We are all elegant under the flesh, …” ― Kit Varnan Guest Editors: Shane Neilson, Roxanna Bennett, & Ally Fleming Paul Lisson: Editor Fiona Kinsella: Editor / Designer Founding Art Director: Peter Stevens (1963-2015) Contributing Editor: David Forsee (1944-2017) Hamilton Arts & Letters 11TH ANNIVERSARY issue twelve.2   ISSN 1916-8454     HAL on Twitter Notes Toward an Essay on Poetry & Family Relationships in a Few Canadian Poets by Stephanie Yorke • Image: family by bill bissett. Leaving the Light On by Anita Dolman • Image detail: being longing by bill bissett. Too Pretty To Be In a Wheelchair: On Beauty and Disability by Sue Sinclair • Image detail: suddn by bill bissett. Notes From a Grieving Mother by Dorothy Bakker • Image: goddess carees on by bill bissett. Toward a Poetics of Stuckness: Poetry, Mental Disability, and Crisis by Andrew McEwan • Image detail: 2 face by bill bissett. The Secret Handshake - A Hidden Gem in Kensington Market by Sofia Ariza • Image detail: dayzees meeting by bill bissett. HA&L magazine Membership. This Boat / cannot float / without you.                                        HA&L magazine would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council an Ontario Government Agency, and the City of Hamilton. Sincere thanks to all of HA&L's members,  sponsors, and advertisers – we wouldn't be here without you!