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Caribbean Housing

Get out of the cold! Experience the less touristy, south shore of Jamaica! Villa Hikaru is a lovely, classic well-kept late 60s era Jamaican stone

Self-Portrait with a Cat and Anxiety

Elizabeth Vignali is the author of the poetry collection “House of the
Silverfish” (Unsolicited Press 2021).

Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Cincinnati Review,
Poetry Northwest, Mid-American Review, Tinderbox, The Literary
Review, and others. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she
works as an optician, produces the Bellingham Kitchen Session reading
series, and serves as poetry editor of  Sweet Tree Review. Find her
on Instagram at Random_Acts_of_Lineness.

Ghost Poems

Emily Hockaday’s first full-length collection, Naming the Ghost, is available on Barnes & Noble and with Cornerstone Press. Her second book, In a Body, an ecopoetry collection about chronic illness, is forthcoming October 2023 with Harbor Editions.

You can find Emily at www.emilyhockaday.com or tweeting (for now) @E_Hockaday.

Bernie Spier-Comedy Cove Set 11/05/2022

Dr. Spier was the first eye surgeon in New Jersey to participate in Mission Cataract, a national program which provides free cataract and implant surgery to those who have no means to pay. This has become an annual project at the Institute.

Iconicity

Sara Sowers-Wills teaches linguistics and writing at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD).

She recently collaborated with her husband, a musician, in a performance at the planetarium on the UMD campus.

$38,398 for a Single Shot of a Very Old Cancer Drug

Written by Arthur Allen. Originally published by Kaiser Heath News.

Bill of the Month is a crowdsourced investigation by KHN and NPR that dissects and explains medical bills. Do you have an interesting medical bill you want to share with us?