Fetal Pigs and Popcorn: ‘Lessons’ in May’s ‘Art of Nursing’
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Popcorn by twicepix / Martin Abegglen, via Flickr To be frank, the opening scenario in Bernadette Geyer’s poem “Lessons,” featured in this month’s Art of Nursing...
View ArticleDo You Have to Like People To Be a Good Nurse?
When I began nursing school I was confident that I’d enjoy being a nurse because I already liked being a waitress. I imagine that you’re already groaning, but hear me out. I had traits that served me...
View ArticleOn Difficult Truths, Anger, and Compassion: Recent Poems in ‘Art of Nursing’
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Loafer Mod by pdstahl / Patrick Stahl, via Flickr “Why couldn’t you leave cleanly?” asks the narrator of Ann Sihler’s poem, “Leavings,” featured in the June Art of...
View ArticleFighting HIV–AIDS with Public Health Billboards: September ‘Art of Nursing’
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Public Health Billboard, Guinea-Bissau (detail) On a recent trip to the capital of Guinea-Bissau, Dawn Starin noticed numerous public health billboards urging people...
View ArticleQuestions of Priority, Written in Vernix and Blood: Two Poems in ‘Art of...
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Handleaf by The Welsh Poppy / Rachel Davies, via Flickr Jenna Kay Rindo’s poem “An Ode to My Certified Nurse Midwife” (Art of Nursing, August) brims with the...
View ArticleThe Shape of a Woman: Two Poems in ‘Art of Nursing’
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Abstract ice patterns by net_efekt, via Flickr “I think about the woman / wilting // on the pillow of the steering wheel,” begins Stacy R. Nigliazzo’s poem “Sketch,”...
View ArticleBearing Witness: April’s ‘Art of Nursing’ and Cover Art
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor In “Palm Sunday,” the poem featured in this month’s Art of Nursing, nurse and poet Rachel Betesh evokes the prolonged anguish of those who tend the dying. A man lies...
View ArticleCompassion for Those Among Us: Recent Poems in ‘Art of Nursing’
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Faded rose texture, by Calsidyrose via Flickr In Carolyn Scarbrough’s poem “A Rose By Any Other Name” (Art of Nursing, August), a nurse sees an “opaque rose,...
View ArticleThose Who Wait: Recent Work in ‘Art of Nursing’
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Beach Stone Found by mscaprikell, via Flickr “I held that stone / in my hand for hours while they split your bones,” says the narrator of Janet Parkinson’s poem...
View ArticleA Chorus of Bravo! and Huzzah! for these ‘Art of Nursing’ Contributors
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor from Two Albuquerque Moons, (c) Charles Kaiman 2007 The digital grapevine has brought news from several Art of Nursing contributors, and it makes me happy to pass it...
View ArticlePermission to Grieve: A Poet Addresses the Unmapped Territory of Pregnancy Loss
You were so new, still more dream than person. A poetry submission hits a personal chord. photo by Susanne Nilsson/flickr As the column coordinator for AJN’s Art of Nursing, which publishes poetry,...
View ArticleHonoring Nurses—Artfully
Artwork and collage by Rebecca Moses. They’re not your typical images of nurses—no scrubs or PPE in sight. A series of portraits by fashion designer and artist Rebecca Moses depicts nurses in their own...
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