“Kenny Fries writes out of the pure hot emergency of a mortal being trying to keep himself alive. So much is at stake here—health, affection, culture, trauma, language—but its greatest surprise is what thrives in the midst of suffering. A beautiful book.”
—Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door
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What Happened Here in the Summer of 1940?
In a series of six interrelated short videos, Kenny Fries reads excerpts from his forthcoming book Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust. The readings are supplemented by personal and historical photographs from his visits to the six Aktion T4 killing sites, where disabled people were mass murdered during the Third Reich.
1. Brandenburg an der Havel: The Behavior of the Delinquents
In the first video in the series, Kenny visits Brandenburg an der Havel, the site of the first “test killing” of disabled people in early 1940.
New Collaborations
In 2020, Kenny received a 3-year multi-project grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to support collaborative projects with artists and institutions around the world, using his privilege as a pioneer in disability arts to foster an enduring connection between generations of disabled artists.
PROJECTS TO DATE
Disability Poetics Video Series Trailer
Works By Kenny
About Kenny
Kenny Fries received the Creative Capital Literature Award for In the Province of the Gods. He is the author of The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, and Body, Remember: A Memoir, and the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. His books of poems include In the Gardens of Japan, Desert Walking, and Anesthesia.