In conjunction with the October issue of Health Affairs, which will focus on disability and health, the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is holding a poetry contest. The poetry contest will ...

told the symptoms were imaginary. To dismiss her was efficient, like acid. She lives, then, in a chain; in sclerosis of her will; altered by this school of loss. But medical tests had been measuring ...

“The word tender comes to mind,” says Tamara Wellons, who manages the artist in residence program at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax. In a space on the second floor, near the elevators and ...

In early 2023, the editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) decided not only to include poems in their highly respected professional publication, but also to publish ...

Treat yourself to a few perfect minutes each day by taking time to listen to Spokane Public Radio's "Poetry Moment." Each "moment" features a local poet reading a poem — sometimes their own work and ...