Poet • Educator
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I am excited to announce I have a poem in this issue of Michigan Quarterly Review, curated by Heather McHugh a nationally known poet and MacArthur Genius Award recipient who started Caregifted with her award.
You will also find in this special Caregiver issue pieces by Elizabeth Aquino and Irma Pinedo (translated by Wendy Call.)
I hope you’ll purchase a copy (or PDF) and support this great literary magazine.
Please find the poem, “On a Scale of 1 -10” online at SWWIM, published in August. It is one of the poems in my soon to be published poetry and visual art book dealing with autoimmune diseases called, The Body Lives Its Undoing.
Other poems included in the book, are forthcoming in the Michigan Quarterly Review and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. “Sick Girl in the Wilderness” was published online by Isacoustic in July.
The book, published in conjunction with The Benaroya Research Institute (BRI) has been almost 2 years in the making. The visual art is stunning, with contributions by Julie Trout, Anna Hooser, Shelley Lowenstein, and others, some of whom are scientists that work at BRI.
I’ll be teaching the 2nd round of this class at Hugo House starting October 1st and running for 6 weeks. I’d love to see you there. Please register soon. Here’s a little preview of the course.
By focusing on the craft of writing, we can transform personal experience into art. Readings will include excerpts from: Poetry in Medicine, The Healing Art: A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry, Poetry As Survival, and Beauty Is a Verb, as well as the work of Alicia Ostriker, Lucia Perillo, Susan Sontag, Lucille Clifton, Anatole Broyard, and Kevin Young, among others. Each week there will be readings, discussion, and writing prompts. There will be time to receive feedback after the first class.
We’ll also read some short prose pieces and excerpts from longer creative, non-fiction.
Feel free to pass this information on to whomever might be interested.
I am grateful to have the poem “Tough”, from my poetry and art project on autoimmune diseases, out today from HEAL.