Issue 8 is here!
The Examined Life Journal’s 2020 edition includes 289 pages of great writing from healthcare professionals, students, patients, and family members. Preview it in this sampler, which includes:
- Michael McGuire, “Cracked, but not Broken” (FICTION)
- Maureen Neal, “This is a Fine Place We’ve Come To” (NONFICTION)
- Linnet Drury, “The Statistics and the Silence” (POETRY)
- Katy Giebenhain, “This Morning Two Policers” (POETRY)
- Philip DiGiacomo, “My Bird Bill” (FICTION)
- Tamara Nicholl-Smith, “Front Porch on a Rainy Afternoon” (POETRY)
- Erik Carlson, “What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Medical School” (POETRY)
- Travis Stephens, “Son Worrying About Down South” (POETRY)
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, “What the Mostly Blind Eye Sees” (POETRY)
- Liana Meffert, “Short Coat Sonnet” (POETRY)
- Richard Kravitz, “A Long-term Patient Leaves a Veterans Hospital” (POETRY)
- Sheri Reda, “Trapped Bird, Locked Door” (POETRY)
- Gail Goepfert, “After Video-Touring the Brooklyn Japanese Garden During the Time of the Virus” (POETRY)
- David Correll, “For Ever and Ever, Kaboom” (NONFICTION)
- Rana Awdish, “The Aviary” (NONFICTION)
- Katharine Marsden, “Awful Grace: Reflections” (BOWMAN CONTEST WINNER)
- Liana Meffert, “Vietnam Surgeon” (BOWMAN CONTEST WINNER)