Selected Readings & Other Media
Poetry: The Refuge of Witnessing
Owen Lewis reads from new work in discussion with John Gillepsie, Board Chair of The Stockbridge Library and Archive as part of their weekly poetry series: Refuge and Witnessing.
Podcast on The Power of Poetry in Medicine
In this podcast, Clinical Psychiatrist and poet Owen Lewis (Columbia) and Sue Spencer, Associate Editor at Medical Humanities, discuss both the power and “disruption” of poetry in and out of healthcare curriculum.
Reading at Chesterwood
Owen Lewis reads from his collection of poems, FIELD LIGHT, in front of Daniel Chester French's studio in Chesterwood on July 25, 2020. Lewis is introduced by the Executive Director of Chesterwood, Donna Hassler, and the reading is followed by a Q & A. Video and photography by Gregory Cherin. All rights reserved 2020, Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Hippocrates Book Award
The Open International First Prize went to Owen Lewis, a clinical psychiatry professor at Columbia University, New York City and Visiting Professor at Einstein Medical College. About what inspired his winning poem At Tribeca’s Edge, he said: "My students at Columbia, College of Physicians and Surgeons, were the inspiration for this poem. "I sometimes teach a section of Foundations of Clinical Medicine, a course that extends over their first three semesters. Coming to the end of our time together, I felt overwhelmed considering all they had yet to learn, hoping they would hold onto their optimism and idealism, and humbled by what I had contributed. The poem is dedicated to them.”
Owen Lewis and Myra Shapiro at NYU Bookstore
Owen Lewis and Myra Shapiro Poetry Reading NYU Bookstore 10-10-13.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Seymour Bernstein\Owen Lewis, "New Pictures at an Exhibition," Part 1 This is a live performance with Seymour Bernstein performing his compositions, and Owen Lewis reciting his poems.