Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

My thanks to the following publications that have published versions of the poems that appear in this collection: Wordgathering, Disability Studies Quarterly, Breath and Shadow, The Survivor Chronicles, Disabled World, Etchings, DuPage Valley Review, and Prairie Light Review.

Some of the poems in this collection also appear in the chapbook Hit the Ground (Finishing Line Press in 2013) and the anthology Their Buoyant Bodies Respond (The Inglis Poetry House, 2010). I’d like to acknowledge and thank the following people who provided support and assistance: Michael Northen, M. Ann Hull, Elizabeth Weber, Kevin McKelvey, Brett Griffiths, Emily Pruitt, Leah Maines and the editors of Finishing Line Press, and my family, especially Kevin and Hattie who tend my heart and keep me going—body and soul.