Birthday Gratitude
Christopher Papp MD is an ophthalmologist. He’s a soccer enthusiast, proud father and founder of The Comprehensive Vision Center in South Lyon, Michigan.
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Miscarriage at 12 Weeks
Christopher Dasaro is a third-year medical student at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He holds a BS in Neuroscience from Muhlenberg College. This poem first appeared in Intima.
Hotel Review: The Andronis Boutique Hotel (Santorini, Greece)
Eric Dessner is an ophthalmologist in Brooklyn, NY.
He is also the founder of www.medmic.com
Thank You to Hayward Hospital For Helping Our Dad With His Diverticulitis.
Three siblings would like to thank the healthcare workers at Hayward Hospital in Wisconsin for helping diagnose and treat their dad’s diverticulitis.
Biopsy Results in Ten Days
Cynthia Bernard is a woman in her late sixties who is finding her voice as a poet after many years of silence. A long-time classroom teacher and a spiritual mentor, she lives and writes on a hill overlooking the ocean, about 25 miles south of San Francisco.
Babies Are Perfect, New Parents Need Sleep Training
Dr. Cynthia Unuigbe is the Founder of Sleep & Cradle Solutions and a recognized sleep consultant.
She can be reached through her website www.sleepandcradle.com/
I Wasn’t There
Subhaga Crystal Bacon (she/they) is a Queer poet living in rural Washington on unceded Methow land. She is the author of four collections of poetry including Surrender of Water in Hidden Places, Red Flag Poetry, 2022, and the Isabella Gardner Award winning Transitory, forthcoming in the fall from BOA Editions. This poem first appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review.
Poetry Interview with Melissa McKinstry by Jane Newkirk
Melissa McKinstry holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific University. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and Orison’s Best Spiritual Literature, and appear in Rattle, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rust & Moth, December, Tahoma Literary Review, SWWIM, Nimrod International, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Find her at her website: https://www.melissamckinstry.com/
Jane Newkirk is the poetry editor at Medmic. Her poems have appeared in Empty House Press, The Shore, Naugatuck River Review, The Night Heron Barks, Intima, and others. In 2019, her creative nonfiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is an occupational therapist in Jackson, Mississippi.
Mama, When Did This Rain Begin?
Darcy Smith’s debut collection, River Skin, came out in June 2022. Smith was awarded the Please See Me Fourth Annual Mental Health Awareness Poetry Prize. She is a Certified Sign Language Interpreter, Buddhist, kickboxer, wife & mother. Smith lives with her husband & their cat, Miley in New York’s Hudson Valley. For more information visit: www.darcysmith.org