M.S. Marquart,
The Reclining Poet
disabled, mixed race Asian American poet writing about life with long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E. or me/cfs)
The Reclining Poet
disabled, mixed race Asian American poet writing about life with long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E. or me/cfs)
POEMS PUBLISHED BY JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES:
"What It Boils Down To," HNDL Magazine (Issue 001: Lost & Found, p. 18, September 2025)
“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)
Republished in healthline zine (Issue V: Corporeal, p. 8, December 2025)
"Little Sparks of Love," miniMAG (Issue 141: horus, pages 7-8, March 14, 2025) (free to access until Sept 14, 2025)
An earlier version of this poem is published in HNDL Magazine (Issue 11: Light, April 17, 2025)
"Love Letter to My ME/CFS, Long Covid Body," FLARE Magazine (special Valentine's Day Issue, February 14, 2025)
Nominated by FLARE Magazine for a 2025 Genrepunk Award for Disabled Artists
"Existence While Hoping for a Cure (#MillionsMissing)" in Lombardi Voices (Volume 21, Winter 2024), pages 42-43. Also posted on the #MEAction Pillow Writers website
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.
"One Disabled Person to Another" in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts (Issue 90, January 2025); Link to download the screenreader edition
First shared in the Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024)
"For Whom These Wonders?" in The Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024)
“First Time at the Beach with My New Cane,” Jewel City Review (Volume 2, p. 125, May 2025)
"Eau-de-Intimacy," Micromance Magazine (March 11, 2025)
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)
POETIC 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