It's nearly here! #PoetryForALL2025 is tomorrow (Friday 28th November) in the gorgeous National Centre for Early Music in York and livestreamed online. If you'd like to join us online, the link is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-for.... As ever, our event is fully BSL interpreted. 1/3

It is, indeed, the final day of our #crowdfunder (www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...) to be able to pay our #disabled artists, venue, #BSL interpreters, and videographer, though you can continue to send us money via that and Kofi (ko-fi.com/poetryforalluk) afterwards. Please pledge and/ or share!

Day 18 and our campaign is still at 33% of the target. Will you help us go further? We have 18 days left to raise the funds for our #accessible #poetry event #PfAFundraiser24 which took place on 29-Nov-24. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

We can't help but agree! Thanks for tuning in, Beth. ❤️

I wrote something a little longer about @poetryforalluk.bsky.social because I'm incredibly passionate about it, and we NEED to see this work. #PfAfundraiser24 #PleaseShare www.tumblr.com/fayrobertsuk...

Day 12 and our campaign is still at 27% of the target. Will you help us go further? We have 24 days left to raise the funds for our #accessible #poetry event, which takes place tonight! #PfAFundraiser24 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

THIS IS TODAY!!!!! Highlight of my year. Join us please: 7.30pm GMT. 2.30pm US EST. 8.30pm much of Europe & Africa. Asia: sorry dudes, dawn Fab line up Astonishing poems Such an amazing community @poetryforalluk.bsky.social Part of #YorkDisabilityWeek #BSL #[email protected]

🚨 Calling all poets! We're looking for #PoemsAbout #CrossingTheLine this week! 🗓️ Friday, 29th Nov 📍 @AlanParry83.bsky.social 🔥 He will be reading your work and giving tailored feedback. Don’t miss this chance to push boundaries and get your voice heard. #PoetryCommunity #SkyPoetry #writers

Updated my LinkTree to include a couple of recent anthologies with new poems from yours truly, and a ticket link and Crowdfunder for my next feature @poetryforalluk.bsky.social Friday 29th November, York and LiveStreamed. #PoetsLife #PoetsOfBlueSky linktr.ee/rickdove

It's @poetryforalluk.bsky.social (York & livestreamed) Friday. Yet again we're deemed unworthy of arts council funding. If you'd like to demonstrate that there IS demand for accessible poetry by disabled poets, you can attend, contribute to our fundraiser, or buy our merch: linktr.ee/poetryforalluk

If only 2600 people pay £1 each for the livestream, we'll totally break even (with a decent in-person audience too) :) Livestream link soon available via Eventbrite!! @poetryforalluk.bsky.social

Hello, at @poetryforalluk.bsky.social we must ask if you can spare a few quid. Crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for... Rewards for donations! You’ll receive a livestream link for almost any amount! Thank you! 😊 #AccessibleArts #AccessibleVenue #AccessiblePoetry #BSL

Please consider supporting #accessibility. £3000 event, ACE declined last minute. Thank you! @poetryforalluk.bsky.social @rickdove.bsky.social #BSL #DeafPoetry #AccessibleVenue #PoetryCommunity #ArtForAll www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

Really looking forward to reading with Ellen McAteer & Jennifer Wong in a fortnight at this launch for the Disabled Poets Prize 2024 winning pamphlet Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed. Join us? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-wils... #poetrybluesky #poetry

We are OPEN to poetry submissions from poets who are queer and disabled. We want to further the conversation, so this call is a round-robin. Reprints accepted.

thanks for this. no funds these days, but have shared your post with my feed. another antho i love is Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back Edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman published by Nine Arches Press in the UK ninearchespress.com/publications...

Eeeep, thank you so much to everyone who’s submitted to the Disabled Poets Prize. Run by CRIPtic Arts x Spread the Word, and begun by the brilliant Jamie Hale. Just got the submissions for my category, lking fwd to Jamie and I being severely pressed abt judging from a plethora of great art.

🏆 Read more about the ADCI Literary prize and the Disabled Poets Prize which encourages positive representations of disability in literature and poetry. www.thepublishingpost.com/post/literar...

You know that you can discuss overwork/"Zoom fatigue" without crapping all over hybrid engagement and participation for disabled/chronically ill people (students, teachers, researchers), right? Many administrators & journalists appear not to know this, at least. Not linking the WaPo piece, either

Fuck all of this. Incredibly, it gets worse the longer you read…

Very exciting!

EXCITING NEWS! We've raised enough to (just about!) be able to afford a videographer so that you'll be able to watch and listen to the event live from the comfort of your own... wherever you like. Online Event Admission tickets are pay-as-you-feel - just go to poetryforall23.eventbrite.co.uk

WOW. We've reached our baseline target already! A couple of particularly generous donations over the last 24 hours pushed our pledges up onto the plateau and we're now looking at exciting vistas ahead of us, free of worry about affording to put on this event. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

Day 10 and our campaign is now, thanks to community generosity, at 94% of the target. Will you help us go further (we don't get any unless we hit 100%)? We have 12 days left to raise the funds for our accessible poetry event www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

Day 8 and our campaign is now at 69%* of the target. Will you help us go further (we don't get any unless we hit 100%)? We have 14 days left to raise the funds for our accessible poetry event www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for... (*you know what to do...)

Day 7 and our campaign is now at 65% of the target. Will you help us go further (we don't get any unless we hit 100%)? We have 15 days left to raise the funds for our accessible poetry event. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

If we get past our baseline target to our stretch goal, we'll be able to make this event EVEN MORE accessible by hiring a videographer to livestream and record the event. For the first time, I'm starting to feel properly hopeful! #PfAFundraiser23

Day 6 and our campaign is now at 60% of the target. Will you help us go further (we don't get any unless we hit 100%)? We have 16 days left to raise the funds for our accessible poetry event www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

Day 5 and our campaign is now at 39% of the target. Will you help us go further? We have 17 days left to raise the funds for our accessible poetry event www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

We're at 31% already! Can you help us reach our goal in 2½ weeks' time...? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

When we say Poetry for ALL, we mean it - as many accommodations and adjustments as we have resources for, while seeking means for more. Please do ask the important questions and we'll do our best to answer - we don't pretend to have all the answers, so please keep challenging us!

2½ weeks to go! Please support our #PfAFundraiser as we strive to bring #accessible #poetry to all! We've done really well so far; will you help us go further? #accessibility #disability #PoetryForALL #fundraising #Crowdfunder www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

Every year I set my UG students on my #disability course the assignment of finding media stories re disability and critically analysing them using sociological frameworks such as #ableism, medical models. I would like to personally thank the UK government for giving us so much material to work with

Announcing a call for content from the Mad and Crip Theology Press for a forthcoming anthology of lived disability #theology. Working title - 'Our Disability Theologies: Body-Minds & God-Talk.' Full details and Plain English version at www.madandcriptheologypress.ca/general-9 #DisabilityTheology

I know, as a disabled & neurodivergent 'occasional storyteller,' how inaccessible #arts & #performance events can be. (That's why I'm only an occasional storyteller.) Can you donate to an event that aims to make performance #poetry accessible to more disabled poets? #disability

Back in February, my son decided to walk 250k steps to raise funds for The ME Association. Despite having a big year in school, he's continued to plod on and now he's in his last 10k. Can we get him to £500 to double his original target? Please donate if you can! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

🚨IDEA ALERT🚨 I think universities could do a whole lot better at supporting PhD students & research/teaching staff with mental health conditions. There’s strength in numbers, so I’m thinking of starting a network for academics with MH issues for mutual support. Would YOU be interested? #AcademicSky

A post from one of our organisers about why Poetry for ALL is important to zir. (Check out our fundraising campaign while you're at it!)