• Event T182: Neurodiverse Sounds like Universe: Crafting Worlds Embracing Neurodiversity. Thursday, February 8. 12:10 - 1:25PM. Room 2504AB KC Convention Center Level 2.

  Combating stigmas and shame culture surrounding mental health, writers share poetry, nonfiction, and cross-genre work that embraces autism spectrum disorder, Anxiety, ADHD, OCD, Bipolar, and depression. These writers refuse to hide from or mask within an ableist society and through content and form, call attention to the creative powers of neurodiversity. They will share their work and discuss how their craft choices transform neurotypical language into a neurodiverse universe.

• Event T193: Embodied Prosody, Embodied Sentences: Coping Mechanisms. Thursday, February 8. 1:45 - 3:00PM. Room 2103A. KC Convention Center, Street Level.

  torrin a. greathouse asks, “What tools can prosody provide us with for cultivating an embodied poetics of disability?" Jenny Johnson suggests “Prosody can be a space for wrestling with and wrestling off old scripts, and also for generating the new ones that we need.” Oliver de la Paz argues that prose poems offer a specific vantage point for the “political” gesture of sentence making, while Brian Teare suggests that a collage-based prose practice can wire our sentences to our nervous systems.

• Offsite Event: Poems You Need. Friday, 7:30 - 9:00PM. Venue TBA.

  Hosted by Kelli Russell Agodon and Melissa Studdard.

• Book Signing: Norton Booth. Saturday, February 10. 11:00AM.