The Plague Doctor
James Morehead is the Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and has published several collections of poetry including “canvas”, “portraits of red and gray”, and “The Plague Doctor.”
Medmic: by professional poets
Song Between Faith Healings
AT Hincapie’s writing was awarded the Margaret Reid Prize for Formal Verse and was named a finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He serves as Interviews Editor with Palette Poetry and teaches in Colorado.
Fall / Winter 2024 Haiku Contest Winners Announced
Fall/ Winter 2024 Haiku Contest Winners Announced!
Abecedarian for Those Who Believe Birth Control Goes Against Nature (poem & audio)
Grace MacNair is a poet, teacher, and healthcare professional. A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Grace’s micro-chapbook, Even As They Curse Us, is available from Bull City Press. IG: @ecarg_enna_m. Twitter@GraceMacNair.
bronchitis : haiku
Kimberly Hall (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent poet based in Southeast Texas, with a master’s degree in behavioral science. Her work has appeared in publications such as Sappho’s Torque, Equinox, and The Ekphrastic Review.
A Sonnet for Autoinflammatory Arthritis
The winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award for Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), Jen Karetnick is the author of 10 additional poetry collections. She lives with Ankylosing Spondylitis and other co-morbidities in Miami, where she is the co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day. See jkaretnick.com.
Two Poems by F.M. Lupinetti
Flavian Mark Lupinetti, a poet, fiction writer, and cardiac surgeon, received his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, december, Redivider, Sheila-Na-Gig, and ZYZZYVA. Mark lives in New Mexico.
Threadbare
Annette Sisson’s poems are published in Valparaiso PR, Birmingham PR, Rust+Moth, Lascaux Review, Cider PR, Glassworks, Aeolian Harp Anthology, and others. Her first book Small Fish in High Branches was published by Glass Lyre (5/22), and she is finishing her second, Winter Sharp with Apples. Her poems have placed in Frontier New Voices, The Fish Anthology, and others; in 2023, two have been nominated for The Pushcart and one for Best of the Net.
February 14
Kim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry. Her poetry has been translated into several languages including Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Hungarian. Collections have been published in China, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, and the UK. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors.
Interview with poet Kelly R. Samuels by Jane Newkirk
Kelly R. Samuels is the author of the full-length collection All the Time in the World (Kelsay Books) and two chapbooks: Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee with work appearing in The Massachusetts Review, Court Green and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest.
Jane Newkirk serves as 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.