Over the course of a month and a half, poet Elle Klassen had one-on-one conversations with nurses, patients, doctors, family members, clinical technicians, administrators – really anyone who approached her and her typewriter at the Free Custom Poetry table she’d set up in their hospital.
The poems inspired by these conversations tell the stories of some of those humans.
Listener Poet Elle Klassen
Washington, D.C.
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Being in healthcare can be extremely rewarding, but it comes with the occupational hazard of loss. This woman loved the work she did with dementia patients and the connections she was able to form with them. However, she also struggled with the frequent loss of people she had bonded with.
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