On Monday, November 1st, at 7:00 in the Art Exhibit Room, three Editors and several writers with work in the 10th Anniversary issue of THE HEALING MUSE will read from the magazine.
The Editors who will read are Deirdre Neilen, Rebecca Garden, and Nancy Schreher. The writers are essayist Mona de Vestel (Utica), poets Bruce Bennett (Wells), Anna Feldman (Wells ’10), Katy Giebenhain (Pennsylvania), Joyce McAllister (Ithaca), and Sue Supley (Syracuse). Also present will be Kayleen Wilkinson (Wells ’10) who published an essay in The Healing Muse 9 and served as an intern, and current Wells Senior Ana Giovinazzo, who served as a Healing Muse intern.
The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University’s Center for Bioethics & Humanities. It was founded by Distinguished SUNY University Professor Bonnie A. St. Andrews, who passed away in 2003. Wells College Press published a chapbook of Ms. St. Andrews’ poems, LEARNING FROM RENOIR in 2004, and has sponsored annual readings from The Healing Muse.
Deirdre Neilen wrote in her Editor’s Note to the current issue: : “The book you hold in your hands testifies to the power of art, a power far greater than medicine. The artists and writers within its pages continue B. A. St. Andrews?s vision of a journal that would celebrate memory, commitment, love, and yes, even suffering, all the experiences that make us human and thus serve to unite our individual identities.”
Poet, doctor, and Professor at Harvard, Rafael Campo wrote: “The Healing Muse, one of the first literary journals to recognize the connections between creative self-expression and healing, remains one of the foremost in the burgeoning field of the medical humanities”. It has grown to become an instrument of healing for our entire troubled culture.”
Refreshments will be served after the reading.
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