Medmic

“We Wait” and “This Sighing” by Kevin Hadduck

Kevin Hadduck recently retired from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, ending thirty seven years in academia. He has published poetry in a variety of journals, including Journal of the American Medical Association, Lullwater Review, Appalachian Journal, The Wisconsin Review, Plainsongs, South Dakota Review, Blue Unicorn, The Christian Century, and The Sow’s Ear.

Self-Portrait With An Open Skull

Anthony Borruso is pursuing his Ph.D. in Creative Writing at Florida State University where he is a Poetry Editor for Southeast Review and co-host of the Jerome Stern Reading Series. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and was selected as a finalist for Beloit
Poetry Journal’s Adrienne Rich Award by Natasha Trethewey. His poems
have been published or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, Spillway, The Journal, THRUSH, Gulf Coast, CutBank, Frontier, and elsewhere.

Bed Rest

Erin Jamieson (she/her) holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University of Ohio. Her writing has been published in over eighty literary magazines, and her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of a poetry collection (Clothesline, NiftyLit, Feb 2023). Twitter: @erin_simmer

Radiology

Mary Elizabeth Birnbaum was born, raised, and educated in New York City. Mary’s translation of the Haitian poet Felix Morisseau-Leroy has been published in The Massachusetts Review, the anthology Into English (Graywolf Press), and in And There Will Be Singing, An Anthology of International Writing by The Massachusetts Review, 2019. Her work has appeared in Lake Effect, J Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Soundings East, Barrow Street, and other literary journals. In 2022 Mary received two nominations for a Pushcart Prize.

This poem was originally published Watershed Review 2021

Excerpt from the novel The Algorithm Will See You Now, a speculative thriller by JL Lycette, MD

JL/Jennifer Lycette MD is a rural community hematologist/oncologist, novelist, award-winning essayist, wife, and mom (three of the human sort, two of the dog persuasion). Mid-career, she discovered narrative medicine on her path back from physician burnout and has been writing ever since.

The Algorithm Will See You Now, a speculative medical thriller, is out 3/2/2023 (Black Rose Writing Press). Connect with her on her website https://jenniferlycette.com.