"Some Rights" by Jillian Weise

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 19, 2017   Some Rights   Jillian Weise

Right to property Right to protect property Encrypt everything Make private I am so right and if I'm not    I'm gonna burn yr FB wall down Be something for sale Be a strategy Last fall was tough on us Ask after me Ask after me again Small business owners Big pharma There are said to be 7000    bodies buried under    that university If we write, it's identity If they write, it's Reflections    on American Legacy The ADA Those aren't just letters Punk a bunch of coffins            Copyright © 2017 Jillian Weise. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "The State is slowly and deliberately trying to extinguish disabled people through any means possible: erosion of our human rights, suspect 'right to die' legislature, denial of access to health care, etc. I'm alarmed when writers collude with the State. I wrote this poem as an objection to both the State and the ableism in poetry." —Jillian Weise   Jillian Weise's The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions, 2012) won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. This fall Soft Skull Press will publish a tenth anniversary edition of her poetry collection The Amputee's Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007). Weise teaches at Clemson University. Poetry by Weise   The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions, 2012)  "I'm Over the Moon" by Brenda Shaughnessy "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz" by Matthew Olzmann "Shared Plight" by Kamilah Aisha Moon Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038