Zoeglossia has selected 13 disabled poets as fellows for their 2021 conference. The fellowship provides the poets with the opportunity to attend an annual retreat/conference and work with established writers who are also disabled. This year the event, hosted by New Mexico State University, will be held entirely online May 20-23 due to restrictions required by the Covid-19 pandemic.
New Mexico State University English professor Connie Voisine is a co-founder of Zoeglossia, an organization for poets and writers who identify as having a disability. (Courtesy Photo)
The NMSU College of Arts and Sciences is excited to have the opportunity to assist Zoeglossia and its NMSU-based co-founder Dr. Connie Voisine in providing this important venue for poets living life with disabilities to develop and share their voices to a national and international audience, said James Murphy, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. We look forward to the conference, to the pubic readings it will present, and to the intellectual and emotional growth we can each achieve when all voices are nurtured and displayed.