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A Hospital Stay in 28 Poems
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian On our shelves of poetry sits In Hospital, a small,...
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Limerick Anatomy
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. By Andrew Gordon, Systems Librarian The cover. Anthony Euwer, an American poet and painter, published The...
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Lessons from the Good Doctor
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. By Rebecca Pou, Archivist Cover of Der gute Doktor. Click to enlarge. This week, we’re celebrating...
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The Journey of Dr. Robert Bongout and his Lady, to Bath
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. Anyone who has read a Jane Austen novel or seen an...
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Beyond “The Yellow Wallpaper”: Silas Weir Mitchell, Doctor and Poet
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. Today, Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) is best known...
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A Thousand Ways to Please
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. Two of my favorite books in the library’s collection...
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Medical Rhymes
By Danielle Aloia, Special Projects Librarian Cree, WJ. In memoriam: Hugo Erichsen M.D. Detroit Medical News. 1944;36(12):9. In 1884, Dr. Hugo Erichsen (1860-1944) published Medical Rhymes, a...
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“How Many Stamens Has Your Flower?” The Botanical Education of Emily Dickinson
By Anne Garner, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago. Emily Dickinson (1858)1 Daguerreotype of...
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Crimson in Memory
By Emily Miranker, Events and Projects Manager In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce...
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“Alas, Poor Daft Jamie’s Pickled!”: Poetry Concerning the Resurrectionists
By Carrie Levinson, Reference Services and Outreach Librarian You may have heard about “Resurrection Men” – people who robbed graves and even killed people to fill the unprecedented demand for cadavers...
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