Poetry in Medicine: Recent Episodes
Earl Stewart, Jr., M.D.
Created in May 2020, the Poetry in Medicine podcast seeks to foster empathy and encourage humanism in the daily practice of medicine through poetry.
This podcast features audio readings of pieces of poetry and prose that focus on the medical community and the daily practice of medicine and health care from across the world. We seek to foster and encourage humanism in medicine. Submissions are permitted and are encouraged. If you would like your poem selected for the podcast, please submit in a Word document with the name of the author and location to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com. Poems must be in English.
Podcaster: Dr. Earl Stewart Jr. is an Internal Medicine Physician, Gospel Pianist, Christian Author and Poet. He practices primary care and hospital medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and founded the Poetry In Medicine Podcast in May 2020. He is a frequent medical essayist, blogger, and frequently invited speaker at churches and health fairs. He published “Precious Memories: Reflections for Christian Living” in 2012 and “Words for Today” in 2013. He later published “In Love, With Poetry” in 2019. He has won several local poetry competitions, continues to write poetry, and shares in the belief that poetry can be used to foster humanism and empathy in the healing arts. In October 2018, Dr. Stewart was recognized as one the 2018 “40 Under 40” in the state of Georgia for his career and community service efforts deemed at making a tremendous impact in the lives of fellow citizens across the state and region by Georgia Trend magazine. He resides in Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
Today we feature "Untitled" by Laura Jean Truman.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot:podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/Honored to be named one of the Top 100 Poetry Podcasts by Feedspot Blog Reader.podcast.feedspot.com/poetry_podcasts/
Today we feature "Untitled" by Jeffrey Pipes Guice.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot:podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/Honored to be named one of the Top 100 Poetry Podcasts by Feedspot Blog Reader.https://podcast.feedspot.com/poetry_podcasts/
Today we feature "Blue Hope" by Dr. Sarah Candler.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot:podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/Honored to be named one of the Top 100 Poetry Podcasts by Feedspot Blog Reader.podcast.feedspot.com/poetry_podcast…featured_email
Today we feature "If We Didn't Love Each Other-Except from The Crossover" by Kwame AlexanderPlease send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot:podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/Honored to be named one of the Top 100 Poetry Podcasts by Feedspot Blog Reader. https://podcast.feedspot.com/poetry_podcasts/?feedid=5588909&_src=f1_featured_email
Today we feature "Mercy after Nikki Giovanni" by Rudy Francisco.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot:podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "Church is Hard" by Pat Smith.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot:podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "On the Beach at Night" by Walt Whitman.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: https://podcast.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "In Memory of President Jimmy Carter: 'Sermons We See' by Edgar Albert Guest."Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "An Excerpt From 'To A Young Lady'" by John TrumbullPlease send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "Jourdon Anderson's Letter to His Former Enslaver, 1865"Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "Untitled Colonoscopy Tale" by Dr. Michael Kelso.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "Doxorubicin: Infusion" by Laura Paul WatsonPlease send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "The Obituary of Valerie Ann Smith"Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "The Black Manifesto" by Markis Piper.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "Desiderata" by Max Ehrmann.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."Honored to have been named one of the top 10 medical podcasts in the state of Georgia by Feedspot: https://podcasts.feedspot.com/georgia_medical_podcasts/
Today we feature "Life Nourished" by Untitled.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "The Maple" by H.F. Darnell.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "If We Must Die" by Claude McCay.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Juneteenth: Poetic Quest for Environmental Justice" by Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "To Autumn" by John Keats.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Got Flowers Today" by Paulette Kelly.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Evaporation" by Believer Waterson.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "One Man Stand" by Believer Waterson.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "The Man Who Thinks He Can" by Walter D. Wintle.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Don't Quit."
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Today we feature "Sadness" by Erin Hanson.
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Today we feature "Test of a Man"
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Today we feature "See It Through" by Edgar Albert Guest.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Invictus" by Michelle Butler.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Another Piper" by Michelle Butler.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature, in celebration of Black History Month in the United States for 2023, "We Shall Overcome."Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature, in celebration of Black History Month in the United States for 2023, "I'm Determined" (Author Unknown).Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Little Stones At My Window" by Mario Benedetti.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "I'll Never Forget You" by Nebulous the Poet.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "A Wing and a Prayer" by Michelle Butler.Please send your submissions to be featured on the podcast to poetryinmedicine@gmail.com."In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "Untitled Prayer from 'Prayers for Dark People'" by W.E.B. Dubois.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today, we feature "October" by Robert Frost.
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"In whatever it is that you do, read a poem."
Today, we feature "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde.
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"In whatever it is that you do, read a poem."
Today, in commemoration of Father's Day 2022, we feature "Only a Dad" by Edgar Albert Guest.
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Today, in commemoration of Juneteenth 2022, we feature "I, Too" by Langston Hughes.
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Today we feature "Find A Way" by John G. Saxe.
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Today we feature "Thanksgiving" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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Today we feature "Heart Condition" by Jericho Brown.
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Today we feature "On Liberty And Slavery" by George Moses Horton.
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Today we feature "Mother's Smile" by Tessa McGregor.
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Today we feature "Cancer" by Jessica Louise Wheeler.
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Today we feature "Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem" by Dr. Maya Angelou.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "A Thanksgiving Poem" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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Today we feature "Pink Ribbon" by Kevin T. Pearson.
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Today we feature "This Breast Surgeon" by Alysa Cummings
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Today we feature "I Am Not a Victim of Breast Cancer" by Laura Barnes.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "COVID - 19 Vaccine Poem" by Hennepin Healthcare System
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Today we feature "Dear Vaccine" by Naomi Shihab Nye.
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Today we feature "Eyes:" by William Matthews.
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Today we feature "Can't" by Edgar Albert Guest.
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Today we feature "Industry" by Charles Eugene Banks.
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Today we feature "If--" by Rudyard Kipling.
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Today we feature "In This Life" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
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Today we feature "Teachers" by Kevin William Huff
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Today we feature "The Apocalypse" by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell
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Today we feature "On Ranking" by Jinit Desai.
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Today we feature "The Miracle of Morning" by Amanda Gorman.
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Today we feature "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley.
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Today we feature "The Spanish Flu" by Joe Bogle.
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Today we feature "The Influenza, 1890" by Winston Churchill.
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Today we feature "New Normal" by Puja Mohan.
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Today we feature "A Poem For Holidays In The Hospital" by Ariel Jacoby.
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Today we feature "My Life Has Turned to Blue" by Dr. Maya Angelou.
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Today we feature "Love Is Patient" by Haileigh B. Johnston.
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Today we feature "The Monster" by Olivia M. Likens.
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Today we feature "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost.
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Today we feature "Doctors" by Sara Teasdale.
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Today we feature "Be A Nurse" by Edwin C. Hofert.
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Today we feature "Spring And All (By The Road To The Contagious Hospital)" by William Carlos Williams.
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Today we feature "Down in The Valley" by Anonymous.
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Today we feature "Manifesto-The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" by Wendell Berry.
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Today we feature "In My Medicine Cabinet by Jack Kerouac."
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Today we feature "Smell! by William Carlos Williams."
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Today we feature, "Living in The Body" by Joyce Sutphen.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature, "Born Weaponized" by Kenneth E. Piper.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature, "At Twenty-Three Weeks She Can No Longer See Anything South Of Her Belly" by Thom Ward.
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In this special feature, we present the "Last Words of Congressman John R. Lewis,"of the 5th Congressional District of Georgia, which he penned before his death on July 17, 2020. These words were initially published in the New York Times on the date of his funeral, July 30, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Today we feature, "Complaint" by William Carlos Williams.
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Today we feature, "Peace On Earth" by William Carlos Williams.
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Today we feature, "Little Exercise" by Elizabeth Bishop.
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Today we feature, "THE OLD MEDICINE SONG" by Dolores Stewart.
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Today we feature, "Her Long Illness" by Donald Hall.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Death is an inevitable part of the life experience. We encounter it in Medicine every day. Sometimes multiple times a day, despite our best efforts.
A cousin of mine died yesterday. A beloved former patient of mine died yesterday as well. Both had cancer. Both were wonderful women, loved to have fun, loved their families, and were full of life.
Today's podcast is dedicated to them: Alberta Parks and Evelyn Walker.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature "in celebration of surviving" by Chuck Miller.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
In honor of the life and legacy of George Floyd, I read "Ballad of Birmingham," a poignant piece in reflection of racial injustice and the continued struggle for civil and equal rights for Black people.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."
Today we feature, "Human Beings" by Adrian Mitchell.
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Today we feature, "The Medicine Man."
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Today we feature, "Not By Bread Alone."
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The is the inaugural podcast of the Poetry in Medicine Podcast.
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"In whatever you do, read a poem."