Joy Jacobson, Guest Author January 27-31

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January 26, 2014

Joy Jacobson, Guest Author January 27-31

This week we welcome Joy Jacobson as our guest author. Joy is a poet, a health care journalist, and an editor. She’s the poet-in-residence at the Center for Health, Media & Policy at Hunter College in New York, where she teaches narrative writing to nursing students and practicing clinicians and blogs on poetry and health policy. Her poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Examined Life, and other journals, and in a 2004 chapbook, I And. Her essay on using poetry in nursing education is forthcoming in the anthology Keeping Reflection Fresh: Top Educators Share Their Innovations in Health Professional Education, to be published by Kent State University Press. Follow her on Twitter: @joyjaco.

Welcome, Joy.

Posted by The Best American Poetry on January 26, 2014 at 05:01 AM in Announcements | Permalink

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Joy, we're looking forward to your posts! Welcome aboard.

Posted by: DL | January 27, 2014 at 07:39 AM

What a beautiful essay on writing and motherhood and daughterhood. Thanks for it--and the prompts!--Joy.

Posted by: Helen Klein Ross | January 29, 2014 at 10:08 AM

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark

from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman