Medmic: Poetry

Love and Other Erlenmeyer Flasks

Woods Nash, PhD, MPH, is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Houston Fertitta Family College of Medicine.

His poems and essays have appeared in Medmic, JAMA, Academic Medicine, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, JGIM, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Bellevue Literary Review. He is from Glasgow, Kentucky.

The Plague Doctor

James Morehead is the Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, host of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast, and has published several collections of poetry including “canvas”,  “portraits of red and gray”, and “The Plague Doctor.”

Abecedarian for Those Who Believe Birth Control Goes Against Nature (poem & audio)

Grace MacNair is a poet, teacher, and healthcare professional. A 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Northwest, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Grace’s micro-chapbook, Even As They Curse Us, is available from Bull City Press. IG: @ecarg_enna_m. Twitter@GraceMacNair.

bronchitis : haiku

Kimberly Hall (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent poet based in Southeast Texas, with a master’s degree in behavioral science. Her work has appeared in publications such as Sappho’s Torque, Equinox, and The Ekphrastic Review.

A Sonnet for Autoinflammatory Arthritis

The winner of the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award for Inheritance with a High Error Rate (January 2024), Jen Karetnick is the author of 10 additional poetry collections. She lives with Ankylosing Spondylitis and other co-morbidities in Miami, where she is the co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day. See jkaretnick.com.

Two Poems by F.M. Lupinetti

Flavian Mark Lupinetti, a poet, fiction writer, and cardiac surgeon, received his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, december, Redivider, Sheila-Na-Gig, and ZYZZYVA. Mark lives in New Mexico.