Poetry
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Many people find poetry to be therapeutic - a way to express what they are feeling and experiencing. These poems have been generously shared over the years by people who have been touched by cancer.
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A Promise to Eurydice
From: The Radiation Sonnets, Reprinted by permission of Algonquin Books, 2003. Not to be reprinted without permission.
A Virtual Interview with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
OncoLink
After Cancer
One Good Thing About My Yearly Mammogram
OncoLink Poet-in-Residence
For Those Who Wait
To Hell & Back: Quotable Quotes
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The Mastectomy Poems: 2. The Gurney
From: The Crack in Everything, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
The Power of the Pink Ribbon
OncoLink's Poet in Residence
Terrible Word
From: Don't Turn Away: poems about breast cancer. PWJ Publishing, 2000.
A Virtual Q & A with Dr. Karen Ritchie
By Alysa Cummings
The Bad Man
Business Not as Usual
From: Bare Root: A poet's journey with breast cancer, Terrapin Press, 2002
Breastless
The Last Thing I See
From: Skylark, Winter 2001
Getting Well
From: Almost Home Free. Pecan Grove Press, 2003
What You See Ain't What You Get
From: Don't Turn Away: poems about breast cancer. PWJ Publishing, 2000.
Changing Partners
From: Bare Root: A pet's journey with breast cancer, Terrapin Press, 2002
The Knife
9. Healing
From: The Crack in Everything. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
Remission
From: The Lyric, Spring 2002