Just passing by on my way to breakfast I could tell it was Earl from the HPI, the History of my friend’s Present Illness up high on the auditorium’s chalkboard at BCH, all those multiple admissions to Boston City Hospital for liver disease and pancreatitis, his left hand and forearm shot off in Korea. We […]
Michael Salcman
Michael Salcman is the former chairman of neurosurgery, University of Maryland and president of The Contemporary Museum, a child of the Holocaust and a survivor of polio. Poems in Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, Hopkins Review, Hudson Review, New Letters, Notre Dame Review, Raritan and Smartish Pace. Books include The Clock Made of Confetti (nominated for The Poets' Prize), The Enemy of Good is Better, Poetry in Medicine, classic and contemporary poems on medicine, A Prague Spring (Sinclair Poetry Prize winner), Shades & Graces (winner Daniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize), Necessary Speech: New & Selected Poems (2022) and Crossing the Tape (2024).