Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
presents
Philly Loves The Poetry of Medicine
Jack Coulehan, MD is director emeritus of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society and professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also is the author of four collections of poetry, The Knitted Glove, First Photographs of Heaven, Medicine Stone and Bursting with Danger and Music. He and Angela Belli edited Blood & Bone, and Primary Care, anthologies of poems by physicians. The Wound Dresser, Jack Coulehan's sixth collection explores the mysterious tension between tenderness and steadiness in medical practice. Surprised at his own conflicted feelings about his role as a physician, Coulehan seeks to emulate the tender care shown by Walt Whitman as he comforted wounded Civil War soldiers. In so doing, he discovers the healing power of human contact and engagement. With directness, passion, and often humor, these poems evoke an ethic of compassionate solidarity — between patient and doctor, person and family, the individual and the human community.
David N. Moolten, MD is the author of Plums & Ashes, which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and Especially Then and Primitive Mood, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press. Poems by David Moolten have appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southwest Review, and Epoch, among other journals and reviews. His work has been widely anthologized and his honors include a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. Moolten, a physician specializing in transfusion medicine, was educated at Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Wynne Morrison, MD, MBE is a physician practicing pediatric palliative care and critical care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She teaches at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic interests are pediatric ethics and the medical humanities. Her published poetry reflects on the healthcare provider experience and the individual’s interaction with science and health.
Host: DEBORAH FRIES
When: March 6, 2018, 6:30 PM
Where: PhillyCAM
699 Ranstead Street -Suite 1
Phildelphia, PA 19106 United States
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM
There are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form, ethnic background, age, gender, and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them.
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