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The William Carlos Williams poetry contest, sponsored annually by the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), is open to students attending allopathic or osteopathic schools of medicine in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. This event will feature readings by the three student award winners (Brian Zhao, Bessie Liu, and Sarah Phillips) and by Amy Haddad, PhD, MSN, MFA, FAAN.
Amy Haddad is a poet, nurse, and educator who taught at Creighton University in Omaha, NE for 30+ years. Her poetry and short stories have been published in the American Journal of Nursing, Janus Head, Journal of Medical Humanities, Touch, Bellevue Literary Review, Aji, Oberon Literary Journal, Abandoned Mine, Intima, and several anthologies. Her chapbook, The Geography of Kitchens, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021 and her first poetry collection, An Otherwise Healthy Woman, was published by Backwaters Press, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, in 2022. An Otherwise Healthy Woman won first place in the Creative Works category of the American Journal of Nursing Book Awards 2022. Read more about her poetry at www.amyhaddadpoetry.com.
This event is sponsored by Northeast Ohio Medical University. The preceding reception is co-sponsored by Northeast Ohio Medical University and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. This event is part of the Health Humanities Consortium Conference, co-sponsored by the Department of Bioethics, ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ School of Medicine and the Program in Medical Humanities, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.