Something Close to Beautiful

For the third year in a row the Inglis House Poetry Workshop will be producing a chapbook of poetry related to disability. The tentative title of this year’s chapbook, Something Close to Beautiful comes from a line in poet Paul Kahn’s prize-winning poem “Katharine’s Room.” Readers’ familiar with the high quality of the writing in the workshop’s last chapbook, Dancing With Cecil, will not be disappointed. If they are active readers in disabilities literature, they will notice names more familiar to them: Stephen Kuusisto, Jim Ferris, Laura Hershey, Steven Brown, Sharon Wachsler. The presence of these writers marks a slight shift in balance from talented poets who have written poems about disabilities to writers who live in. Something Close to Beautiful is scheduled to appear in early fall 2005. It is book worth watching for.