Johnson Cheu
To the Street Evangelist
Punishment, curse, fate.
Born disabled, or attained,
thou shall not script me
as sin. Nature or nurture,
life is simply, justly, made.
Johnson Cheu started writing poetry in June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. From there, his poetry’s appeared widely in anthologies such as Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out, Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, and journals from North American Review to most recently Crab Orchard Review, and Foliate Oak. Other stuff out in the world includes edited film books, and scholarly articles in Popular Culture Studies and Disability Studies.
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