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Annual Poetry Contest at Med Center

Write Us a Poem encourages link between literature and healing

The contest is open to Duke University:

♥ Current and former employees and their families

♥ Current and former patients and their families

♥ Students

♥ Volunteers

Enter one poem. This poem may not already be sent to another contest or journal. The poem should reflect some aspect of life at the Medical Center: birth, death, illness, health, pain, recovery, healing, medicine, caregiving, nursing, medical center administration, the hospital, the clinics, grief, relief, technology, addiction, mental health, pediatrics. The deadline is Dec. 1.

Two ways to enter:

E-mail your poem as a WORD Document attachment to brown097@mc.duke.edu.

The following information must be included the body of your e-mail:

  • Your name
  • Title of your poem
  • Duke phone (if you work at Duke) and home phone
  • Duke address (if you work at Duke) and home address
  • Your permission for Health Arts Network at Duke to print, display and publish your poem.
  • Your connection to Duke.

Snail Mail: Send three copies of your poem (two with your name, one copy without your name) to

Grey Brown

Box 3017

DUMC

Durham, NC

27710

The following information must accompany your entry on separate piece of paper:

  • Your name
  • Title of your poem
  • Duke phone (if you work at Duke) and home phone
  • Duke address (if you work at Duke) and home address
  • Your permission for Health Arts Network at Duke to print, display and publish your poem.
  • Your connection to Duke.