Amy Miller’s writing has appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Nimrod, Rattle, RHINO, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, Willow Springs, ZYZZYVA, Fine Gardening, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and many editions of the Poet’s Market. She is the editor-in-chief of the small boutique publisher Cyclone Press.
Ms. Amy Miller can be reached at:
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This poem was written by Muhammad Ali Abid
He is a 4th year MBBS student at King Edward Medical University, Pakistan. He describes himself as “a writer at heart and medic by profession, I strive to find a perfect balance between scalpel and pen that will help me heal others and myself, as well.”
Laura Paul Watson lives and writes in Pine, Colorado. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Florida. She recently was shortlisted for the 2021 Manchester Poetry Prize, and her work appears in Agni, Boulevard, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere
Poet and critic Austin Segrest is the author of Door to Remain (UNT Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. His poems can be found in Poetry, The Common, Ecotone, The Threepenny Review, and many others. He was a 2018-19 poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Born and raised in Alabama, Austin teaches at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
This poem was originally published in Five Points Journal
Laura Paul Watson lives and writes in Pine, Colorado. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Florida. She recently was shortlisted for the 2021 Manchester Poetry Prize, and her work appears in Agni, Boulevard, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.
Kelly R. Samuels is the author of the full-length collection All the
Time in the World and two chapbooks: Words Some of Us Rarely Use and Zeena/Zenobia Speaks.
She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Court Green and RHINO. She lives in the Upper Midwest
Rishi Doshi, MD is a medical retina specialist with Kaiser Permanente in Orange County, California.
I wrote this poem after seeing dozens of social media posts by medical students who did not match into a residency spot on Monday. The Match is the system by which medical students and residency programs rank each other and then get paired up by a computer algorithm; the results are revealed on Match Day, which can be an emotional tidal wave as students find out where they’re going to spend the next few years, and some find out that their futures are suddenly in question. They can join the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) to try and lock down an unmatched position, or try again next year.