Suzanne Edison, MA, MFA

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September 12, 2018 By Suzanne

New poems & a book coming soon

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.

( above- beta cell circus, by Shelley Lowenstein)

 

                                                                                                                      (man, by Anna Hooser)                                                                                                                                                                                                         

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.

 

(art at right by Julie Trout)

Filed Under: Art & Writing, poetry Tagged With: autoim, poetry, visual art

September 12, 2018 By Suzanne

The Words to Say It:Writing About Illness, Trauma & Healing–Hugo House class

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.

Filed Under: events, teaching Tagged With: healing, illness, writing

July 24, 2018 By Suzanne

“Tough”– a new poem in HEAL-from Florida State University College of Medicine

I am grateful to have the poem “Tough”,  from my poetry and art project on autoimmune diseases, out today from HEAL.

 

Filed Under: Art & Writing, poetry Tagged With: autoimmune disease, medicine, poetry

June 19, 2018 By Suzanne

Poem on grief- Fire in the Ice

I am happy to have a poem up at Persimmon Tree journal dealing with grief of various sorts. Feel free to pass it on.  Mine is the second one, scroll down.

http://www.persimmontree.org/v2/summer-2018/west-coast-poets/

Filed Under: Art & Writing, poetry

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