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
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Prescriptions
Handing in the doctor’s / prescription / Scrawled commitment / chronic forever / a new medication / to add to the mix
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To My Future Guide Dog
I hope you have a cute name / Scout or Wishbone / Flanders or Doug / Rick or Trapper.
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Funeral in the Garden
Hey, this is me talking to you. I am important: I hold your head and protect your spinal cord.
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Hospital Mindfulness Program Pantoum
Transient discomfort of uncertain origin Activating ancient internal reactions
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How do you feel?
My counselor asks; my reply pours out of my chest, along with a waterfall of tears, in a very cartoonish stream.