HUMANITIES IN MEDICINE

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS POETRY COMPETITION

Each year, the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition receives hundreds of entries from students enrolled in schools of allopathic or osteopathic medicine located in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. Named for the renowned physician-poet, the competition is now in its 41st year. e top three prize-winning poems are selected by judges from the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. Each receives a monetary award and is considered for publication in the Journal of Medical Humanities. In this year’s competition, the rst-, second-, and third-place prize winners will be invited to read their work alongside a featured speaker in the annual awards ceremony, which will be held during the Health Humanities Consortium Conference in March 2023 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Last year’s speaker was “Comic Nurse” and innovator in the eld of graphic medicine, MK Czerwiec. Past featured speakers include the physician writers Rafael Campo, John Stone, Audrey Shafer, Dagan Coppock, David Watts, Jay Baruch and Amit Majmudar (2003 NEOMED graduate and Ohio’s rst poet laureate). e competition accepts entries through midnight eastern time on Dec. 31, 2022.

Submission details, eligibility criteria and online entry are available at neomed.edu/wcw-poetry-competition.