The word “patient” in a medical context originates from the Latin “patiens,” meaning “suffering.” But “patiens” itself is derived from “patior,” meaning “to suffer, endure.” Join us for a reading and conversation with three clinician-poets exploring how poetry can push against the passivity of the “patient” and lean into relationship and commonality.
Michele Bombardier,
Risa Denenberg, and
Jed Myers, all accomplished poets with decades of professional clinical experience, will read to us from their most recent works and dive into a discussion exploring the relationship between poetry and compassion, and what it looks like on a craft level to write about disability/illness, death and dying, and the complexities of the clinical relationship.
*This event is virtual and will premiere on our
YouTube channel at the time scheduled above.
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