• Forbidden Fruit 

  Mukherjee-Roy, Neije (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: The literal story about picking a peach stems from a recent event when I slipped while climbing a peach tree to pick a particularly ripe peach I wanted. I came off the ...

• Four-letter Words 

  Wang, Jennifer (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: Before #MeToo , there was a debate about whether comics have the right to tell rape jokes. Around the same time, I was becoming a more vocal feminist, standing up for ...

• She... and He... 

  Ivey, Krysten (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: In today's society, people are afraid to share their deepest regrets or pain that they may face in day to day life. Here in this open verse anyone can put their life ...

• Indigo 

  Wang, Jennifer (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: A friend issued a creative challenge in which she assigned all of the participants a color and they had to create something based on it. I got "indigo", which stumped ...

• When the Dam Breaks 

  Patel, Reina (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: As a pediatrician who works in the hospital setting, I see many sick children who get better and get to go home. These are the good days. But when a child dies at work, ...

• Whew 

  Svokos, Heather (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: Curiosity and youthful indiscretion. Let's just say I knew where my dad hid his gun, which we had in the house for protection only. I found it, and wondered: What would ...

• god might have sensorineural hearing loss 

  Pendry, Robert (2019)

• Silver prayer 

  Svokos, Heather (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: One Christmas, my dear friend, former professor and mentor got me a silver necklace. On one of the charms is a bit of smoky quartz, intended to calm and help manifest ...

• In Memory Of 

  Patel, Reina (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: The promise of an exciting vacation in Mexico ended in a shocking and tragic loss of a dear friend. The heightened emotions I felt during this heart wrenching time led ...

• lost and found 

  Pendry, Robert (2019)

• The Last Dream 

  Henson, Jeresia (2019)

• The Gardener 

  Holland, Adriana (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: My grandfather passed away a few years back and this is my memorial to honor him. He was a man of few words, but I learned a lot from the little.

• Mis- 

  Mukherjee-Roy, Neije (2019)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I handle a lot of mouse breeding at work, and that's where I realized what miscarriage could be like for mothers. One day a mouse was having dystocia and a pup was ...

• This Can't Be Happening 

  Cassill, Carolyn (2018)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: As a student in a Clinical Psychology program housed in a medical center, I'm often confronted with the similarities and differences between physical health and mental ...

• Ecdysis, revisited 

  Wang, Jennifer (2018)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This is a companion piece to my poem, "Ecdysis", which views a burlesque dancer from a scientific lens. This time I flip the script and view the biological act of ...

• memory stealer 

  Dorsey, Olivia (2018)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This work was inspired by those closest to me and those who I have never met. My work draws upon my research into my family's history.

• The Dying Man 

  Cao, Janie (2018)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I was part of a student organization called "No One Dies Alone" that had volunteers visit actively dying patients whose family/friends could not be present. This story ...

• going 

  Cao, Janie (2018)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This poem was inspired by a patient I saw on the neurology stroke service when I was a third-year medical student. Her clinical course made me think about death as a ...

• Crushing Summer 

  Boykin, Randall (2018)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I had a dream about one Summer in San Angelo during college.

• The grass is always less sterile on the other side 

  Pendry, Robert (2018)

  PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This poem, which takes the form of a Renku (or Solo Renga, a series of haikus that come together to form a story when read sequentially) was inspired by the musings ...

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