KNEE BRACE PRESS

A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.

Poetry

Submit your poem to Knee Brace Press! We welcome new voices and veteran poets alike.

Guidelines

All submissions must relate to chronic illness, disability, mental health and/or neurodivergence in some way. What that means is pretty much up to you. If you think your piece covers any of these topics, send it out way!

Our poems

  • February

    the day stretches out in front of me like an el- astic band it snaps

  • An Answer to a Question Posed By A Meditation App

    What can I appreciate in thismoment?The days, minutes,secondswhen I don’t tastemy own stomachin the backof my throat,bile biting with its sinistersheen of sickness.When I can SLEEP,Glory Hallelujah SweetJesus.Six hourswithout waking upso I don’t choke onmy own vomitor shit the bed.When my mind isn’t spinning faster than my fingers can typeinto the search bar:What’s wrong with meWhat’s wrong with…

  • Aphasia, a Loss for Words

    Slow and steady will win.

  • Birkenstock

    The shop assistant hovers among a hundred luminous shoes.

  • Karsten Warholm, Men’s 400m Hurdles Final, Tokyo 2020

    Pressed on the track he is tense as the bicep holding my phone while I’m held by ripples of poly-cotton,

  • INTRUDERS

    they shout in my yard at five a.m. when all I need is one night’s rest.

  • 38, No Coffee

    Tea is for any age.

  • Magic

    I call it my magic trick.

  • That Little Bastard

    More than anything else, he is just. Annoying. 

  • LIABILITY

    I didn’t want to reveal this to my therapist because it’s one of the few times she gets to break confidentiality.