2018 OMOT Literary Works
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This collection contains literary works submitted for the annual On My Own Time Employee (OMOT) Art Show. OMOT is open to all UT Southwestern employees and students. Literary categories include:
- Fictional Short Story
- 10-Word Story
- Creative Non-Fiction
- Open Verse Poetry
Authors of winning Literary Art submissions will be invited to read their works aloud during Literary Night at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in October. Winning entries will also be published in a Business Council for the Arts Program.
Questions? Contact omot@utsouthwestern.edu for more details.
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The following submissions received awards during the literary judging process:
- 2nd Place, Open Verse Poetry: The Duck Farmer by Reina Patel
- 3rd Place, Open Verse Poetry: Ecdysis by Jennifer Wang
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Item Ecdysis, revisited(2018) Wang, JenniferPLEASE 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 ecdysis (the shedding of skin... in this case by a snake) as a performance.Item going(2018) Cao, JaniePLEASE 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 process rather than a state of being. The "dot" symbolizes both the lesion in her brain that grew over time and a state of seeming finality.Item The Dying Man(2018) Cao, JaniePLEASE 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 is a reflection on my experience.Item This Can't Be Happening(2018) Cassill, CarolynPLEASE 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 health. There is still such a stigma attached to mental illness, but I think that if you get past the biases you can see it like any other chronic disease, such as cancer or diabetes. I wanted to explore these similarities through a narrative describing someone's reaction to being diagnosed with a chronic disease.Item The Duck Farmer(2018) Patel, ReinaPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: While traveling on a houseboat with my family in South India, I woke up one morning to an intriguing scene in the waters around me. I could not let the inspiration pass without documenting it in some form; hence this poem was born.Item Crushing Summer(2018) Boykin, RandallPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I had a dream about one Summer in San Angelo during college.Item memory stealer(2018) Dorsey, OliviaPLEASE 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.Item The grass is always less sterile on the other side(2018) Pendry, RobertPLEASE 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 of a frequent hospital patient, a chronically ill person- the author, who underwent a series of prolonged hospitalizations and medical procedures over the period of about a year, noted the exhaustions, realizations, and idiosyncrasies of this experience.Item UTSW HAIKU(2018) Mason, EvaPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I work in a wonderful lab under the direction of Dr. Ruth Gordillo, the Metabolic Phenotyping Core, and like many things at UTSW, it is interdisciplinary and integral to our community functioning as a whole...like each part of our body.Item In America(2018) Howard-Dunn, EricaPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: A recent trip to Africa. In the moment i thought i was telling the truth, but afterward I realized i subconsciously lied, out of fear of hurting him.Item Kindergarten(2018) Shanks, CariPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: When I was in kindergarten, my best friend was a lovely African American girl who had beautiful braids and wore multi-colored barrettes in her hair. We were both 5 years old, full of joy, and never had the slightest idea we were anything but exactly the same -- little girls who shared a love of books and playing and the sweet comfort of friendship. We never realized there was anything different about us. It took the comments of others to draw our attention to our skin color. It didn't matter to us.Item Beach Campout – How to Kick Your Friend in the Head and Get Away with It(2018) Rodriguez, RudyPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This story is an exerpt from a book I wrote for my children describing fond memories I have that range from my childhood to current day. Interwoven in these stores is my love for family, science, math, music, camping, adventure and story telling.Item A new life(2018) Hudgens-Haney, MattheyItem A Doctor's Emotions About Death(2018) Sreeramoju, PranaviPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: You will understand my inspiration to write this piece when you read it. Death as a human experience has bothered me in my work from time to time and it was a whole new experience when I came up close and personal with experiencing loss myself. I probably need to share that I did publish this on my blog couple weeks ago. www.PranaviMD.comItem Nature's Life Formula(2018) Rodriguez, RudyPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This short story is about life. It encapsulates evolution both physical and mental. From microorganisms mutating to survive and thrive in new environments, to immigrants making a new life in a new country, to scientific and medical advances. We all stand on the shoulders of those before us. Tenacity, adaptability, and knowledge transfer allow all things, thoughts, and ideas to take on forms that are more complex. It's nature's formula for life.Item Your Eyes(2018) Horn, DeborahPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: Just wondered if I saw something in another person's eyes, what would they see in me.Item #MeToo(2018) Howard-Dunn, EricaPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: The #MeToo movementItem Memories(2018) Afuwape, YemiPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: A piece of art that was a collage of postage stamps strategically placed to create images of planes flying in the sky over an open field.Item Ecdysis(2018) Wang, JenniferPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: I love burlesque, and I found H.L. Menken's word for a dancer, "ecdysiast", particularly curious, as in science, it describes the process of a snake shedding the skin. I thought I would marry the art of burlesque with scientific observation in this poem.Item For here or to go(2018) Segev, AmirPLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: My life here for the past four years