Karl Knights (Of Directness, the Music of Ordinary Language, and Writing Disability Poetics While Existing All Year)
05/13/25 • 70 min
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin" (Poetry Magazine)
Purchase: Kin by Karl Knights (Winner of the New Poets Prize, 2022)
Karl Knights’s poems, critical essays, and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Dark Horse, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, Kin, (2022) was published by The Poetry Business. Knights is a Zoeglossia fellow and won a 2021 New Poets Prize. He lives in Suffolk, England.
Recommended Reading
Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities, ed. Kobus Moolman (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: 2010)
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, eds. Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen (Cinco Puntos Press: 2011)
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, ed. Raymond Luczak (Squares & Rebels: 2015)
Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, eds. Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman (Nine Arches Press: 2017)
Imaginary Safe House, eds. Shane Neilson, Roxanna Bennett & Ally Fleming (Frog Hollow Press: 2019)
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: "The Difference Between a Dog and a Biscuit Tin" (Poetry Magazine)
Purchase: Kin by Karl Knights (Winner of the New Poets Prize, 2022)
Karl Knights’s poems, critical essays, and journalism have appeared in The Guardian, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Dark Horse, and elsewhere. His debut chapbook, Kin, (2022) was published by The Poetry Business. Knights is a Zoeglossia fellow and won a 2021 New Poets Prize. He lives in Suffolk, England.
Recommended Reading
Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities, ed. Kobus Moolman (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: 2010)
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, eds. Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen (Cinco Puntos Press: 2011)
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, ed. Raymond Luczak (Squares & Rebels: 2015)
Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, eds. Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman (Nine Arches Press: 2017)
Imaginary Safe House, eds. Shane Neilson, Roxanna Bennett & Ally Fleming (Frog Hollow Press: 2019)
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Danika Stegeman (Of Relentlessness, Gendered Maximalism, and Harryette Mullen and the Mirrored Cinquain)
Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Purchase: Ablation (11:11 Press)
Read: "Relentless" (at cloak.wtf, the relentless reading experience)
Danika Stegeman’s second book, Ablation, was released by 11:11 Press November 1st, 2023. Her first book, Pilot (2020), was published by Spork Press. She’s a 2023 recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her video poem, “Then Betelgeuse Reappears” was an official selection for the 2021 Midwest Video Poetry Festival. She’s an assistant editor for Conduit and does light bookkeeping for Fonograf Editions. Along with Jace Brittain, she co-curates the virtual collaborative reading series It’s Copperhead Season. She currently lives in St. Paul, MN. Her website is danikastegeman.com.
Recommended Reading:
Harryette Mullen Urban Tumbleweed
Alice Notley's Certain Magical Acts
Molly Spencer's Invitatory
Jake Skeets’ essay "Poetry as Field" and "The Memory Field"
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