The Choreic Period
Yesterday, we were thrilled to celebrate alongside Latif Askia Ba, a Brooklyn-based writer with Choreic Cerebral Palsy, whose book The Choreic Period won the 2026 Firecracker Award in Poetry!
In his acceptance speech, Latif acknowledged what a rare honor it was for a disabled author to win the award and how he hoped it would shine a light on all the other brilliant disabled writers out there awaiting recognition. We couldn’t agree more.
An incredible poem from Latif’s book can be found here, read aloud by the author himself:
https://poets.org/poem/douglass-pool