Facilitator: Ruth Smith
Hospital Liaisons: Emily Ferrara, David Hatem, M.D.
Location: Chancellor's Board Room, Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School (dinner); discussion following in the Rare Books Room)
Day and Time: Thursdays, 5:30-8:00
Session 1: January 16, 2003 (snow date January 23)
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country (memoir)
Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room" (poem)
Session 2: February 13, 2003 (snow date February 27)
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals (memoir)
Audre Lorde, "Today Is Not the Day" (poem)
Audre Lorde, "The Electric Slide Boogie" (poem)
Anatole Broyard, "The Patient Examines the Doctor" (essay) from Intoxicated by My Illness
Session 3: March 20, 2003 (snow date March 27)
Pat Barker, Regeneration (novel)
Siegfried Sassoon, poems: "The Effect"; "Does It Matter"; "Aftermath"; "Alone"; "A Local Train of Thought"; "Thoughts in 1938"
Session 4: April 24, 2003
Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case (novel)
Selections from Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses: "This Happened" (p. 52); "Gooseberries" (p. 69); "Vietnam Canon" (p. 173); "Curandera" (p.174): "Between the Heartbeats" (p. 178); "Burnt-out Offerings" (p. 185)
Session 5: May 15, 2003
Lorrie Moore, "People Like Us are the Only People Here" (short story)
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" (short story)
Alice Elliott Dark, "Watch the Animals" (short story)
William Carlos Williams, "The Use of Force" (short story)
Session 6: June 19, 2003
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (nonfiction)
