Month: April 2014
Guest post by Daniel Anderson “Easter Sundays” is a poem that begins with a meditation about a quiet and evanescent domestic perfection, then attempts to apprehend a couple of questions regarding what it means to feel at home in this world, and just how illusive that feeling often is. The topical conversations that the poem…
Guest Post by Dan Morhaim The tools are here. We just need to use them. These tools offer something rare and important in our modern medical system: an opportunity to exert influence. I am talking about advance directives, the powerful instruments that allow each of us to manage the final chapter of life in a…
Guest post by Peter Filkins Randall Jarrell said that writing poetry was like walking across a field at night while hoping to be struck by lightning. While the fickle and unpredictable nature of genuine inspiration can be much like that, there are also poems that you know are sort of there and waiting to be…
During April, National Poetry Month, we asked several JHU Press poets to reflect on their art. Brian Swann shares his thoughts and some selections from his latest collection, In Late Light. Guest post by Brian Swann The kind of poem that means the most to me begins in wonder. Something we might have seen a hundred times catches…
Guest post by George Bibel Air France Flight 447, which was lost in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, gives us some insight into why it has been so difficult to recover debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In 2009, investigators were unable to find much debris from Flight 447, and many of the…
In honor of World Health Worker Week, we present an excerpt from an article by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Louis Galambos and Tina Flores which originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Imagine having a stroke in a place where the nearest health facility is a two-hour walk away. And should you manage to find your way…
Guest post by Howard Youth April is a month when there’s no denying winter's retreat. Even if the thermometer dips below freezing, it rarely stays there for long. Days stretch longer, too. For local plants and animals and the wildlife enthusiasts who observe them, it's a very busy time. Washington, D.C. is a capital city…
As the national discussion on the availability of affordable health care for all continues, it seems only fitting that the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved celebrates its twenty-fifth volume. Founded at Meharry Medical College as part of the Institute on Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, the journal sought to provide…
by Janet Gilbert Journals, Direct Response and Renewals Senior Coordinator Speak with Marc Plattner about the state of democracy in the world today and you can almost see the neurons firing. His eyes light up as he speaks passionately, making sure we don’t miss an important new point or historical reference connected in the seemingly…
by Janet Gilbert Journals, Direct Response and Renewals Senior Coordinator Speak with Marc Plattner about the state of democracy in the world today and you can almost see the neurons firing. His eyes light up as he speaks passionately, making sure we don’t miss an important new point or historical reference connected in the seemingly…