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The Other Side of the Wall |
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Last Friday, I heard physician/poet Sonia Rapaport speak to the Osler Literary Roundtable at Duke Medical Center. Her poignant and powerful poems struck a profound chord within me. Why?
Many of her poems chronicle her journey through medical school, internship, and experiences making hospital rounds. One poem talked intricately and intimately about what it was like as a physician to go through anatomy class as a first-year medical student. I held my breath as she spoke, to words that on some level, I needed to hear.
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The Predicament Over Permissions
As I have been expanding, revising and polishing Chrysalis: Colors of the Rainbow for publication this spring, I have also been sending draft copies out to readers and those who are mentioned in the memoir. For me, it has been important, personally and professionally, to respect those who are in my memoir by letting them know it is coming out for publication, and give the opportunity for a response.
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Butterfly Words Flying Onto the Page
 When Barton and I met with the designer who will be designing the covers and interior of our book, little did I realize I would be publishing my own memoir, Chrysalis: Colors of the Rainbow before the manuscript Barton and I are working on together. Chrysalis is more complete, and to put our time to use, we decide that I will work on completing Chrysalis in preparation for publication.
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Do you Swear to Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? |
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On Fridays, I have been attending the Osler Literary Roundtable at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. This is an opportunity for patients, staff, and community members in a roundtable discussion forum. On Friday, we had an Open Table, where we could read our work or the work of someone else to discuss. At the end, we had this fabulous and heated discussion of poetry, memoir and nonfiction.
This came about through the article recently published in The New Yorker entitled “But Enough About Me” by Daniel Mendelsohn. The article discusses why memoirs have become so pop-culture and the nature behind false memoirs (like James Frey with A Million Little Pieces). The discussion lead to the question of poetry. Should poetry be assumed by the reader to be non-fiction?
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Several weeks ago, my husband Barton and I were the keynote speakers at the People First Conference in Jackson's Mill, West Virginia. This conference focused on healthy relationships, with the overall theme of creating more independence for people with disabilities. We spoke to over 220 participants about our relationship and started a dialogue about people with disabilities creating relationships, as well as the challenges and successes along the way.
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