My interest in Narrative Medicine focuses on the power of language to communicate and heal and the ever more limited time the current practices of medicine afford listening.
Selected Papers and Presentations
Poetry Happens Around Us All The Time
Paper presented at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers annual meeting, Vanderbilt University, November 2018
Designing an Intensive Poetry Reading and Craft Seminar for Second Semester Medical Students.
Poetry of Addiction
Paper presented at the International Hippocrates Initiative Conference in Newcastle-on-Tyne,England, May 2019
Poets reflect on the nature of addiction, the emotional toll it takes on the individual and loved ones and the stories of recovery.
Representations of Trauma in Poetry
2019 AWP Conference, Portland, Oregon
Poetry has a unique capacity to embody and convey the experience of trauma in ways that help both traumatised individuals and their care-givers.