Jim Ferris
Professor, Ability Center Endowed Chair in Disability Studies
MS 920
The University of Toledo
2801 W. Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43606-3390
Jim Ferris is a poet and performance artist. He is author of Slouching Towards Guantanamo, Facts of Life, and The Hospital Poems, which won the Main Street Rag Book Award in 2004. Ferris, who holds a doctorate in performance studies, has performed at the Kennedy Center and across the United States, Canada and Great Britain; recent performance work includes the solo performance piece 鈥淪cars: A Love Story.鈥� Past president of the Society for Disability Studies, he has received awards for performance and mathematics as well as poetry and creative nonfiction. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, ranging from POETRY to Text & Performance Quarterly, from the Georgia Review to weekly newspapers. He holds the Ability Center Endowed Chair in Disability Studies at The University of Toledo.
Links:
鈥淭he Enjambed Body:聽A Step Toward a Crippled Poetics鈥� --
鈥淐rip Poetry, Or How I Learned To Love The Limp鈥� --
The Hospital Poems -- (sample poems under the Samples tab)
Slouching Toward Guantanamo -- (sample poems under the Samples tab)
Facts of Life --
Interview and poems in Connotation Press --
Poems --
Poems --
Interview with Anthony Tusler, Telling Our Disability Stories --
Poem: 鈥淗ow We Swim鈥� --
Poem: 鈥淲hat is the Color Green鈥� --
Poetry Speaks reading --
Poem: 鈥淧oems with Disabilities鈥� --