Summer 2024 Poetry Contest Winners Announced!
Thanks to all the poets who submitted to this season’s contest!
Medmic: by healthcare workers
180/120
Eliana Jacobs is a Fulbright Scholar who aspires to become a physician to advocate for the intersectionality of health, education, public health, and writing. She brings awareness towards social determinants of health through her numerous medical poetry publications in Stanford JUSTHEALTH and the Journal of the Student National Medical Association (JSNMA).
The Return
Monica Pernia Marin is a geriatrician and a palliative care physician. She lives in Tampa, Florida and will be soon relocating to NYC to complete additional medical training, this time in the field of neuro-oncology.
Two Haikus by Dale Conrad
Dale Conrad is a medical student at Carle Illinois College of Medicine who takes inspiration from both work and personal life to describe human emotions.
Cesarean
Dale Conrad is a medical student at Carle Illinois College of Medicine who takes inspiration from both work and personal life to describe human emotions.
The Night the Power Went Out
Raised in a New York housing project, she practices as a psychologist in Lexington, Massachusetts. Marian Kaplun Shapiro, now in her 80’s, has had Upbringing, her fifth book of poetry, a collection of experimental graphic poems, published by Plain View Press in January January 2023.
How to Deliver Bad News About a Very Sick Child
Scott McLean, a physician/writer living in San Antonio, TX, is working on chapbooks of poetry, short fiction, and a book of prescriptive/practical nonfiction – First Steps to Improve Your Genetic Health.
Thirteenth Birthday
CC Hart, is a neurodiversity advocate, artist, and author. She is a founding board member of the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists (IASAS). CC lives in San Francisco, California, and holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco.
Three Poems by Mary Jane Philpy-Dollins
Mary Jane Philpy-Dollins’ work appears in The Poetry Machine: Volume 2 (2021), The Poetry Machine: Volume 3 (2022), and the Waco WordFest Anthology (2023). She is the 2023 President of the Austin Poetry Society. She is a nurse living in Texas.
Marionette Hospital
Evelyn M. Potochny, DO, is a physician in central Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in Hektoen, Proud to Be, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, and JAMA.