Fall/ Winter Haiku Contest (Oct 1st – Feb 28th 2024)
We are pleased to announce our Fall / Winter Haiku contest (October 1st – February 28th). The winner will receive a $100 Dollar Prize.
Medmic: Poetry
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Keeping Up
Brittany van der Merwe is an emerging Canadian poet and aspiring author from British Columbia’s interior. She has been featured in Cathexis Northwest Press, at The Write Launch, and more.
Lab Results
Gayathri Krishnamoorthy is a former University teacher, budding creative writer and social activist striving for real empowerment of women and the Nation through her writings.
Sleep Apnea
Denton Loving’s most recent collection of poetry, Tamp (Mercer University Press) was named by Book Riot as one of the 10 Best Appalachian Books of 2023. He is a co-founder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including Iron Horse Literary Review, Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Threepenny Review, and Ecotone. This poem first appeared in the Southern Poetry Review.
I am Living In My Pancreas
Charles Carr lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is retired after 45 years working in Community based Social Services. He has published three books of poems: paradise, pennsylvania ( Cradle Press, St Louis, 2008), Haitian Mudpies and Other Poems (Moonstone Press, Philadelphia, 2012), and forthcoming in December, Eat This Poem (Noonstone Prees, 2023). He is the host of a live monthly
broadcast “Philly Loves Poetry” that features poets from the region.
Intake Checklist (please don’t put me in a box)
Tarah is a physical therapist by background, currently working in the role of a work-health coach with VT RETAIN, a grant-funded program through the State of Vermont Department of Labor. She is a patient with long COVID and participates in the Dartmouth Hitchcock Long COVID Writing Group, during which she writes poetry.
Haiku: Empty Foyer
Ruth Hawley has a MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. Her website is www.ruthhawley.com, from which she publishes a delicious little newsletter called Weekly Bites.
AI Ally
Isabelle Tran is a rising third year medical student at the Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.
What’s in a Name?
Patricia Cannon has been a Registered Nurse at UCSF since 2001. She has worked in cardiac critical care, neuro intensive care, hemeoncology, school nursing, and currently, in research. Her passion is her faith, photography, and the written word in all its forms. “What’s in a Name?” was previously published in the Beyond Words Literary Journal edited by Gal Slonim.
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East II
Eric Dessner MD is an ophthalmologist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder and CEO of medmic.com