Day, Meg 2019
I knew I was a god
when you could not
agree on my name
& still, none you spoke
could force me to listen
closer.
– Meg Day, “Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]”
Watch Meg Day perform her poem “Elegy in Translation”:
Poem-a-Day: “Elegy in Translation” by Meg Day
Poet Meg Day reads her poem “Elegy in Translation” (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/elegy-translation) in the Poem-a-Day series (www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem-day), as part of the initiative Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body. Visit www.poets.org for more poems related to disability rights.
In some other life, I can hear you
breathing: a pale sound like running
fingers through tangled hair. I dreamt
again of swimming in the quarry
& surfaced here when you called for me
in a voice only my sleeping self could
know. Now the dapple of the aspen
respires on the wall & the shades cut
its song a staff of light.
– Meg Day, “10 AM is When You Come to Me”
Watch Meg Day in “The future lives in our bodies,” a virtual reading and discussion on poetry and disability justice:
“The future lives in our bodies”: Poetry & Disability Justice | March 13, 2022
“The future lives in our bodies”: Poetry & Disability Justice, a virtual reading and discussion, featuring Meg Day, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Travis Chi Wing Lau, who hosted and moderated. Lambda Literary and Woodland Pattern Book Center have partnered to host this pre-recorded poetry reading and conversation as part of the Poetry Coalition’s shared programming around a theme of social importance.
