Medmic

Inside Out

Joan Baranow PhD is a Professor of English at Dominican University in California.

This poem appears in her forthcoming book, “A Slight Thing, Happiness” (Saint Julian Press 2022).

Dark Life

George Valler is a retired businessman, husband, father and lover of poetry.

(Everything in nature contains its violence)

by Nancy Naomi Carlson.

Ms. Carlson is a clinical mental health counselor educator and twice an NEA translation grantee.

She also won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

An Infusion of Violets (Seagull, 2019), her recent collection of non-translated poetry, was called “new & noteworthy” by The New York Times.

Conversation at the Prescribed Distance

Bill Griffin MD is a family physician (retired) in rural North Carolina.

Bill’s poems have appeared in JAMA, NC Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, etc. His collection Crossing the River spans his 40 years in small town practice.

Prayer from the Emergency Department

Sophia Gorgens, MD is an emergency medicine resident at Zucker-Northwell NS/LIJ.

She went to medical school at Emory University and undergraduate school at Boston College.

Pneumothorax

Sarah Giragosian PhD is the author of the poetry collections Queer Fish (winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, 2017) and The Death Spiral (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and co-editor (with Virginia Konchan) of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, forthcoming). She teaches at the University at Albany-SUNY.

The Hidden World of Chronic Disease

Susan Baumgaertel MD practices Internal Medicine “virtually’ from Seattle, WA.

She is the founder of www.myMDadvocate.com and the informational website, www.MenopauseMenu.com

Estelle

By Michael Mark

Originally published in Alaska Review and subsequently in the chapbook, Visiting her Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet (Rattle Prize Winner, 2022).