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.
Written by Michael Mark
This poem originally appeared in Santa Fe Literary Review
Ms. Lori Levy has had her poems published in numerous literary journals, both print and online, and in medical and medical humanities journals, such as JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, Ars Medica, Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, The Examined Life Journal, and The Pharos. She lives with her extended family in Los Angeles, CA.
Adam Lalley is a physician in New York City. He is a winner of the Michael E. DeBakey Poetry Award and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition. His writing has appeared in ACEP Now, The Healing Muse, STAT, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
This poem was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (www.theintima.org).
Woods Nash, MPH, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Houston
His poems and essays have appeared in JAMA, Academic Medicine, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, JGIM, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Bellevue Literary Review. He is from Glasgow, Kentucky
Jillian Barnet is a retired Doctor of Physical Therapy.
She writes poetry and creative nonfiction from a tiny farm in the Finger Lakes area of New York.
Jennifer L Freed is the author of When Light Shifts, a finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.
Learn more at Jfreed.weebly.com
By Courtney Davis
Cortney Davis is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Daughter and I Hear Their Voices Singing: Poems New & Selected.