We Can't Read This

by Meg Day

Winner of George Mason University's Gazing Grain Press Chapbook Competition

“In a haunting collective voice that alternates between philosophic instruction to arresting confession, We Can’t Read This is a how-to on re-imagining the body and language when one is denied the instruments of voice and hearing. Through diagrams of sign language and spare fragmented lyrics, the series dramatizes the physical struggle of speech and movingly charts alternate modes of cognition. These poems are a personal and political rumination on disability as well as a beautiful and transformative exegesis on empathy.” Cathy Park Hong

Genres: Poetry

25 pages, Paperback

First published September 21, 2013

About the author

Meg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014). Selected for Best New Poets 2013 and winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Prize in Poetry, Day has also received awards and fellowships from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Lambda Literary Foundation, Hedgebrook, Squaw Valley Writers, the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities, and the International Queer Arts Festival. In 2015, Day received her Ph.D. in Poetry & Disability Poetics from the University of Utah where she was a Steffensen-Cannon Fellow and a United States Point Foundation Scholar. Day is Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Lancaster, PA. www.megday.com