Iconicity
Sara Sowers-Wills teaches linguistics and writing at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD).
She recently collaborated with her husband, a musician, in a performance at the planetarium on the UMD campus.
Medmic: Poetry
- Explore more posts in Poetry:
- professional poetry (7)
- by professional poets (93)
- by healthcare workers (78)
A Virgin of Sorts
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.
To a Body Donor
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).
Those Cat Heads Won’t Dissect Themselves
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
After Work
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.
My Mother in the Hospital, and my Father
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
Women’s Clinic, Late December
By Courtney Davis
Cortney Davis is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Daughter and I Hear Their Voices Singing: Poems New & Selected.
Another Flag at Half-Mast
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.