Medmic: Poetry

Estelle

By Michael Mark

Originally published in Alaska Review and subsequently in the chapbook, Visiting her Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet (Rattle Prize Winner, 2022).

Surviving Miscarriage

Joan Baranow PhD is a Professor of English at Dominican University in California.

This poem appears in her forthcoming book, “A Slight Thing, Happiness” (Saint Julian Press 2022).

Pulling the Plug

by Anastasia Vassos

Ms. Vassos is the author of “Nike Adjusting Her Sandal ”
Her chapbook “Nostos” will be published by Kelsay.

Artist Twitter: @a_vassos

Artist Instagram: @anastasiavassos

Traces

By Ellen Goldsmith

Ellen Goldsmith is a poet and teacher. Her books include Left Foot, Right Foot, Where to Look, Such Distances and No Pine Tree in This Forest Is Perfect. which won the Slapering Hol Chapbook contest.

Heterodox

By Sydney Lea

Mr. Lea is a former Pulitzer finalist and Vermont’s Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2015.

94 = A

Bill Griffin MD is a family physician (retired) in rural North Carolina.

His poems have appeared in JAMA, NC Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review and elsewhere.

Aubade

by Nancy Naomi Carlson.

Ms. Carlson is a clinical mental health counselor educator and twice an NEA translation grantee.

She also won the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

An Infusion of Violets (Seagull, 2019), her recent collection of non-translated poetry, was called “new & noteworthy” by The New York Times.

Innocence

by Wynne Morrison, M.D., MBE

Dr Morrison is the director of the Justin Michael Ingerman Center for Palliative Care.
She is also the Associate Chief for Faculty Affairs in the Division of Critical Care at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Originally Published in Hospital Drive

Meditations

by Anastasia Vassos

Ms. Vassos is the author of “Nike Adjusting Her Sandal ”
Her chapbook “Nostos” will be published by Kelsay.

Artist Twitter: @a_vassos

Artist Instagram: @anastasiavassos