Medmic: Poetry

What I Know to Be True

KELLY GRACE THOMAS is a poet, writer, educator, and an ocean-obsessed Aries from Jersey. She is the author of Future Tense (forthcoming from Alice James Books, 2026) and Boat Burned (YesYes Books, 2020). She is the winner of the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. Kelly’s poems have appeared in: The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. www.kellygracethomas.com

Marionette Hospital

Evelyn M. Potochny, DO, is a physician in central Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in Hektoen, Proud to Be, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, and JAMA.

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.