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Catharine Clark-Sayles
I am a doctor and a poet.

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Previous Pause Next

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True Blue

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A List of Offences

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American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

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Stories in Stone New York: A Field Guide to New York City Area Cemeteries and Their Residents

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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

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The Kite Runner Graphic Novel

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Sleeper's Run

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Color Me English

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Spyder Hole

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Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery

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Little Women and Me

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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

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Mr Fox

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Second Nature: A Love Story

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Life: Descending / Ascending

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"Iron"

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Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Story of Love, Loss, and Letting Go

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Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America

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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons (Voice of Witness)

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The Collaborator of Bethlehem

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We Wanted to be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

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The Butterfly Mosque

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Night Swim

Catharine's Latest Blogs

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Sep.11.2010 - 9:34 am

New Review for One Breath

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=13382 this is a link to a review posted in a database of art, literature, film and music on medicine and healing. I am...

Jul.13.2010 - 11:20 pm

Do Doctors Cry? Radio interview

http://www.womensradio.com/articles/Do-Doctors-Cry%3F--Healing-Words%3A-Poetry-and-Medicine/5527.html> This is a radio interview about poetry, medicine and the whys and...

Aug.31.2009 - 2:24 pm

Poetry with Robert Sward, Roy Mash and The Marin Poetry Center

I went to a poetry reading last week with a number of excellent poets. My friend Robert Sward was reading from his upcoming book of dog poems. One of his first published poems...

Aug.10.2009 - 7:24 pm

Building Community At Squaw Valley

I was on the wait list and when I was not called by the end of the first week in July figured I was going to have a week at home doing yardwork, vet visits and the dribbles of...

Writing

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Poem: Locuspoint.org

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Mar.31.2010 - 10:05 pm

In response to: Loss - Morton Marcus, James D. Houston, Ruth Daigon

mourning for Ruth Daigon

Ruth was a talented poet who was kind enough to provide feedback and encouragement on a very early and rough poem I...

Feb.16.2010 - 8:00 pm

In response to: Lucille Clifton (1936-2010): One of our Most Wonderful Poets

Summer

I would love to be there ,Evie, but rule is you have to wait a year to apply again, then it is lottery. There is a...

Feb.15.2010 - 4:50 pm

In response to: Uncle Dog... Lookin' for dog

dogs on prozac

a psychiatrist friend was proudly telling me how she had gotten her dog to stop obsessively licking a paw to the point...

Feb.15.2010 - 4:41 pm

In response to: Lucille Clifton (1936-2010): One of our Most Wonderful Poets

from Ms Clifton's poem new bones

"we will wear/ new bones again./we will leave/these rainy days,/break out through/another mouth/into sun and honey time...

Sep.10.2009 - 8:11 pm

In response to: Aspiring Authors and Internet Myth - helpful or hurtful?

good advice

I am a poet and there is a rising trend toward self-publishing in poetry (probably because so very little money to be...

About Catharine

After abandoning writing to become a scientist in college and medical school, I made a decision at forty to rediscover something of my missing twenties and began studying poetry. My day job is physician--internal medicine and geriatrics(and known to make...

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