Excerpts from Travis Chi Wing Lau, “Pithy,” in Paring (Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press, 2020), published with permission of the poet. Excerpts from Cameron Awkward-Rich, “Essay on the Awkward / Black / Object,” in Sympathetic Little Monster (Los Angeles: Ricochet Editions, 2016), published with permission of the poet.

Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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