Survive and Thrive: A Journal of Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine

30/07/2024

Based on automated analytics, a screenshot of our circulation world wide for one day in July.

30/07/2024

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29/07/2024

Vols 1 - 9.3 are now available at:

Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine is dedicated to improving the odds of survival and living well through education and language. We are committed to engendering and facilitating restorative therapies for the sick and injured, their caretakers, fami...

29/07/2024

Vols 1 - 9.3 are now available at:

https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/

29/07/2024

The omnibus edition of Vol 9 Iss 3, a special poetry issue which contains Vol 9 Iss 2 in one file, plus some additions, emendations, and a few corrections, is available:

https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol9/iss3/1/

28/06/2023

I am tickled, pleased, and proud to be participating in this art show--long distance--with my favorite art gallery in northern New Hampshire! Photos forthcoming. Thank you, Deidre!!

04/10/2022

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08/09/2022

I am heartbroken. The editors of Survive and Thrive: A Journal of Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine, are heartbroken. So was Rex--literally. Rex Veeder was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of this journal. I met Rex around 1993, when he chaired a panel at an RSA conference where I first presented in the US a paper on the Hebrew Kabbalah as another epistemology of rhetoric. He liked the paper enough to publish it in RSQ (1995), which he was editing at the time. I lost touch with Rex for many years after, until his call and offer to contribute to this new journal. That led to a controversial issue focusing on the purported value and purpose of confessional poetry and art generally, and Rex's distinction between "healing" and "transformation" (Vol 3:1, 2017--https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive.../vol3/iss1/16/). It also led to Rex's his first heart attack, during which Jason Tham, Keith, and I finished the issue. Rex was to have several more heart attacks before his passing. David Beard, Julia Brown, and Suzanne Black have been the primary editors since, and have tried (and to some extent failed, I am sure) to carry on this published manifestation of Rex's vision and expression of love.
I did call Rex from my car on his birthday this past year: it was the last time I talked with him. Rest in peace, Rx. Your work and your memory is and will be a comfort and a blessing for so many. ~Steve Katz

28/07/2022

Our new issue (7.1) appears today. It features work by Sara Sowers-Wills and editorial work by David Beard, Steve Katz, Suzanne Black, and Julia Rose Brown. Thanks also to Roger Hecht for poetry reviewing!

https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/?fbclid=IwAR2XLbs1UcnnFnhWhjdz3d-P18pl_ux04r3Kxfu8dfs1YtjE4iDk9jz49UU

Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine is dedicated to improving the odds of survival and living well through education. We are committed to engendering and facilitating restorative therapies for the sick and injured, their caretakers, families, and med...

16/03/2022

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Written by thirty different poets on a particular encounter that shaped their sense of poetry and what it could do, The Encounter: A Handbook of Poetic Practice is a collection of short personal essays that illuminates the practice and possibilities of poetry in our time.

22/07/2021

This is an amazing issue! Congratulations to Sarah Lawler and David Beard!!

Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine is dedicated to improving the odds of survival and living well through education. We are committed to engendering and facilitating restorative therapies for the sick and injured, their caretakers, families, and med...

22/07/2021

Our current special issue, co-edited by Sarah Lawler (MA in English, Minor in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies) and David Beard (Professor of Rhetoric, Univ. of Minnesota at Duluth) has now been published on our website.

Volume 6, Issue 1 (2021) “‘I Think You’re Muted’: Voices from the Coronavirus Pandemic” developed from a call for papers created by Lawler while completing her degree at UMD.

Lawler shepherded nearly more than 30 papers through the peer review process. Contributions address the ways that pandemic made the world more accessible to people with communication disorders, the ways that the pandemic revealed ugly inequities in race and gender in American life, and the ways communities banded together to manage living in uncertain times.

The issue also contains excerpts from the UMD "Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Separation" project, co-directed by Beard and Devaleena Das.

The special issue can be found here:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/

Lawler's introduction can be found here.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol6/iss1/1/

Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine is dedicated to improving the odds of survival and living well through education. We are committed to engendering and facilitating restorative therapies for the sick and injured, their caretakers, families, and med...

08/07/2021

A special issue of Survive and Thrive on the pandemic, edited by David Beard, is being assembled and is forthcoming this year.