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George Valler is a retired businessman, husband, father and lover of poetry.
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(Everything in nature contains its violence)
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.
Conversation at the Prescribed Distance
Bill Griffin MD is a family physician (retired) in rural North Carolina.
Bill’s poems have appeared in JAMA, NC Literary Review, Southern Poetry Review, etc. His collection Crossing the River spans his 40 years in small town practice.
What I Don’t Say to the Girl With the Scars on Her Arms When I Give Her a Blank Book
Jennifer L Freed is the author of When Light Shifts, a finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.
This poem was originally published by The Connecticut Review.
Learn more at Jfreed.weebly.com
Prayer from the Emergency Department
Sophia Gorgens, MD is an emergency medicine resident at Zucker-Northwell NS/LIJ.
She went to medical school at Emory University and undergraduate school at Boston College.
Pneumothorax
Sarah Giragosian PhD is the author of the poetry collections Queer Fish (winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, 2017) and The Death Spiral (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) and co-editor (with Virginia Konchan) of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, forthcoming). She teaches at the University at Albany-SUNY.
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