Michael Northenis

Michael Northenis edits Wordgathering, A Journal of Disability and Poetry and coordinates the annual Inglis House Poetry Contest for disability-related poetry. For over 40 years, he has taught adults with physical disabilities, women on public assistance, prisoners, and rural and inner city children.

Books

Beauty is a Verb book cover. Photo of woman in a red wheelchair at the bottom of a pool.

Beauty is a Verb: The Poetry of Disability

By Jennifer Bartlett, Michael Northenis, Sheila Black

"Immerse yourself in muscular poems of tenderness and intensity, intimate poems of eloquence and bluntness, profound poems that present disability's difficulty, challenge, and pride - all the while exploring the...