Narrative Medicine: How to Listen Like a Poet – March 20, 2023 (Zoom)

Alan Klass Program in Health and Humanities

This session will involve listening to a recording of a poem several times and responding to it with reflective writing. Discussion and sharing of work will follow. (This will not be the Sexton poem if you’ve done the workshop previously.)

Facilitator: Maurice Mierau

Zoom link and any handouts will be sent to attendees prior to the workshop.

Maurice Mierau’s last book was a monograph on the poetry of Patrick Friesen, How Mind and Body Move. His memoir, Detachment, won the Kobzar Literary Award, as well as the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. His poetry collections include Autobiographical Fictions, Fear Not, winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry, and Ending with Music. Mierau was founding editor of the Canadian fiction imprint Enfield & Wizenty, and of the online magazine Winnipeg Review. Born in Indiana, he grew up in Nigeria, Manitoba, Jamaica, Kansas, and Saskatchewan. He holds an MA in English literature and in 2019 attended a Columbia University seminar on Narrative Medicine. Mierau has worked extensively in the College of Medicine with a variety of learner groups.