M. S. Marquart,
The Reclining Poet
disabled, mixed race Asian American poet writing about life with long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (me/cfs)
The Reclining Poet
disabled, mixed race Asian American poet writing about life with long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (me/cfs)
PUBLISHED AND FREE TO ACCESS:
“Protesting from Bed,” Free the Verse (Issue 14: Louder, July 2025)
“Love After Loving v. Virginia,” Four Feathers Press (June 15, 2025)
“Freedom: An Ode,” Four Feathers Press (June 15, 2025)
“Sue with Caffeine,” Eleventh Hour Literary (June 11, 2025)
“Ode to My Cane,” HAD (May 31, 2025)
“My Body Says No,” The Periwinkle Pelican (Issue 2, p. 25, April 2025)
From their website: "The Periwinkle Pelican Lit is a small labour of love, an indie passion project, and an ode to writers, poets, and dreamers everywhere."
"Little Sparks of Love," miniMAG (Issue 141: horus, pages 7-8, March 14, 2025) (free to access until Sept 14, 2025)
Note that access to all miniMAG issues is free for 6 months, and then issues are archived for paid subscribers only, so this poem will be free to access & download from March 14 - September 14. From their website: "you could, like, buy a month and download them all, then cancel your sub before the second billing cycle ... i wouldn’t even be mad"
An earlier version of this poem is published in HNDL Magazine (Issue 11: Light, April 17, 2025)
From their website: "HNDL (Highlighted Neurodivergent & Disabled Life) is an online and print magazine featuring the work of neurodivergent, disabled, chronically, and mentally ill creatives, writers, artists, dopamine dressers, and small business owners."
"Love Letter to My ME/CFS, Long Covid Body," FLARE Magazine (special Valentine's Day Issue, February 14, 2025)
FLARE is a magazine for chronically ill and disabled writers
"Existence While Hoping for a Cure (#MillionsMissing)"
Published in Lombardi Voices (Volume 21, Winter 2024), pages 42-43. The preceding link is free to access, and this volume of Lombardi Voices can also be purchased for Kindle ($8) or in paperback ($10) on Amazon, with proceeds going to support the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program's Expressive Writing Program.
From their website: "The Georgetown Lombardi Arts & Humanities Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital promotes cura personalis, which means care for the whole person, for patients, family members, caregivers, medical staff, students, and community members."
Also posted on the #MEAction Pillow Writers website
"One Disabled Person to Another"; Link to download the screenreader edition
Published in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts (Issue 90, January 2025)
First shared in the Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024)
"For Whom These Wonders?"
Shared in the Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024) (free to access)
The Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective is a group of disabled BIPOC and/or Queer poets
“First Time at the Beach with My New Cane,” Jewel City Review (Volume 2, p. 125, May 2025)
Jewel City Review is a publication of the City of Glendale, California, and a project of the city's Poet Laureate, Raffi Joe Wartanian
"My Local Life"
Shared in the Forget ME not Arts & Crafts Exhibit 2024, which was a fundraiser for ME/CFS research (May 2024; now defunct)
"Eau-de-Intimacy," Micromance Magazine (March 11, 2025)
From their website: "Micromance Magazine is a new kind of literary journal dedicated to a beautiful marriage between Romance and Flash Fiction"
POEMS POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA:
“Hydrangea Postcard Poem to Save Medicaid,” Instagram, (April 25, 2025)
“Tulip Postcard Poem to Save Social Security and Medicaid,” Instagram, (April 13, 2025)
“Calendula Postcard Poem to Save Social Security and Medicaid,” Instagram, (April 4, 2025)
PUBLISHED AND BEHIND A PAYWALL OR WITHOUT A LINK:
“Dear bell hooks,” Poetic Pathways: Bronx Vibes Zine (June 2025)
"Getaway, with Chronic Illness," Wishbone Words (Issue 15, May 2025) -- £4 but 15% off with code WWFamFrnd15
From their Bluesky profile: Wishbone Words is "An online publisher of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash, translations, art, and photography from chronically ill, neurodiverse, & disabled creatives"
POEMS READ ON PODCASTS:
"One Disabled Person to Another (text)," read and discussed on Episode 12 of the podcast Kaleidoscope: The Art and Language of Inclusion.
The host Nichols deCourville's introduction to my poem starts at minute 6:03, and my reading and discussion of the poem start at minute 6:24.
PHOTO ART:
"Another Kind of Medicine" in Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine (December 20, 2024)
For everyone:
#MEAction's resource What is ME?
#MEAction's podcast Chronically Complex
The short documentary film (free to view) #NotJustFatigue
Ten-part, documentary style, short form video series on ME/CFS by #NotJustFatigue (free to view)
Pillow Writers growing resource of posts What Is ME Like?
The Bateman Horne Center's resource on ME/CFS
The Bateman Horne Center's support groups for those with ME/CFS and lunch & learns
For medical professionals and students (or anyone else):
Free until 9/30/2025 (then it expires) - Continuing education credits for internal medicine physicians and other clinicians via The Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Continuing education credits for healthcare professionals via the Bateman Horne Center
Continuing education credits for physicians via Michigan State Medical Society - module 1 and module 2
Continuing education credits for physical, occupational, and speech therapists via MedBridge
Flashcards for medical students from #MEAction via Anki
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