Medical Humanities: Poetry, Compassion, and Healing

Enjoy poetry and a lively discussion about the role poetry plays in the clinical relationship and for the clinician-poet.

Jed Myers is a psychiatrist with a therapy practice and Clinical Professor at UW. His third poetry collection, Learning to Hold, is forthcoming from Wandering Aengus Press. Poems have appeared in Rattle, The Poetry Review, RHINO, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Myers lives in Seattle, where he’s Editor of Bracken.

Risa Denenberg lives in Sequim where she works as a nurse practitioner. She is a co-founder of Headmistress Press; curator at The Poetry Café Online; and Reviews Editor for River Mouth Review. She has published eight poetry collections, most recently, Rain/ Dweller (MoonPath Press, 2023) and is working on a memoir-inprogress: Mother, Interrupted.

Michele Bombardier is the author of What We Do, a Washington Book Award finalist. She worked as a speech-language pathologist in hospitals and her own clinic for thirty years before returning to graduate school for her MFA in poetry. She has published in over a hundred literary journals and anthologies, including JAMA, Parabola, Crab Creek Review and others. Michele is a Hedgebrook fellow, the founder of Fishplate Poetry, and the inaugural poet laureate of Bainbridge Island.