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.
Medmic: Poetry
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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.
Inside Out
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).
(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.