Survive & 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 medical professionals. We welcome all who are dedicated to saving lives and the aesthetic experience in healing regardless of the kind of illness or injury.
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Current Issue: Volume 11, Issue 2 (2026) Poetry Issue II--Omnibus Edition
Through the Door Slightly
The poems published in this large volume were both invited and submitted. This Omnibus Edition of Special Poetry Issue II (11.2), “Through the Door Slightly,” is the collection (and correction) of all the files (poetry and all photos open) of issue 11.1 into one big open single file with everything in order and as it should be seen! This special issue features an elegy by Carolyn R. Miller for the passing of S. Michael Halloran. Also featured in this issue are a number of poets who previously have published in Survive and Thrive. Two new “travel” poems by Christina Boese; five experimental poems (a “quartet,” plus one more) by Steve Popkin; prose poems by alicia strand from her ongoing work These Forevers. There are many contributions from new submitters of poetry as well—thoughtful, reflective, remorseful, sensory, provocative, surprising, humorous, ironic, sardonic, happy, sad, grateful.Poem
EDITORIAL BOARD Chief Visionary Rex Veeder, St. Cloud State University (1947-2022) Current Editors David Beard, University of Minnesota Duluth Suzanne Black, SUNY Oneonta Julia Brown, CUNY Steven B. Katz, Poetry Editor, Clemson University Past Editors Molly Kay Wright, Columbus State University Jason Chew Kit Tham, University of Minnesota FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD Jimmy Baca, Cedar Tree Matt Barton, Saint Cloud State University Sharon Cogdill, Saint Cloud State University Monica Devers, Saint Cloud State University Deborah Ferraro, Overlook Hospital Jacqueline Genovese, Stanford University Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University Ann Etta Green, Saint Joseph’s University James Heiman, Saint Cloud State University Melissa Hudler, Lamar University Jason Lewis, University of Iowa Keith Lurie , University of Minnesota Meghan MacNamara, PA College of Health Sciences Cindy Mason, University of California, Berkeley Shannon Olson, Saint Cloud State University Avesa Rockwell, University of Minnesota Duluth Duane Roen, Arizona State University Samuel Sears, Eastern Carolina University Donna Snyder, Tumblewords Project Mary Sormanti, Columbia University Barbara Stahura, Therapeutic Writing Institute Jena Strong, Hampshire College Denise VanBriggle, Journey Dance Sydnee Viray, University of Vermont Victor Vitanza, Clemson University Elizabeth Wright, University of Minnesota Duluth Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Kentucky