Above: Diane Kraynak, R.N.
A PORTFOLIO OF WRITING BY NURSES: Tina Carlson • KD Seluja • Sally Helmi • Christine Riley • Jane Slemon • Renata Bubadué • Diane Kraynak • Geraldine Gorman • Charles March III • Mary Ann Thomas • Sarah Comey Cluff • Brenda Beardsley • Shirley Stephenson • Nicole Aicher • Amanda Reilly • Angela Todd • D. Liebhart
In Issue #39 and here online, we include the resulting portfolio of essays, poetry, and witness across the nursing specialties. The work offers us hard fought wisdom, raw emotion, beauty, and no easy answers. This is a Covid-era Fence space of encounter between the art of nursing and the art of literature, for literary writers and nurses to meet, learn from each other, and cross-pollinate through words.
Nicole Aicher —"Battle Fatigue on the Frontlines of COVID" (Essay)
Christine Riley — "Blessings and Burdens: Living a Life Entwined with Death" -- (Essay)
"Amanda Reilly — One More Scoop: Increased Demands on Nursing During a Pandemic" (Essay)
Sally Helmi — "a reflection break," "to imagine the impossible," & "a writing exercise" (Poems)
D. Liebhart"— Love in the Time of Covid"
Diane Kraynak — "The Question of a Funeral" (Essay)
Katherine DiBella Seluja — "The Problem Was I Could See It"(Essay)
Tina Carlson — “Sheltering in Place for Beginners” & “As Numbers of Dead Rise, Moths Fill the Room” (Poetry)
Jane Slemon — "The Hospice Ogre" (Essay)
Renata de Moura Bubadué — "From Me to Others: A Short Reflection" (Essay)
Geraldine Gorman — "Endless Stories We Tell" -- (Essay)
Charles March III — "Rehab Workers Are on the Front Lines, Too" (Essay)
Mary Ann Thomas — "Did I Deserve to Die When I was Drunk?" (Essay)
Sarah Comey Cluff — "The Thanatorium" & "Santa Monica" (Essay and Poem)
Brenda Beardsley— "Leaving, Take & Motherling: Fragments from a Failed Care Plan"(Poetry)
