Medical Student Receives William Carlos Williams Poetry Award

As I was researching Centers for Integrative Medicine, I found myself hitting a few links out of curiosity. I double-clicked on the University of Vermont website (as an East Coaster) and happily, I discovered the headline "Medical Student Receives William Carlos Williams Poetry Award" posted to the homepage.

As a relative of William Carlos Williams, and one in the healthcare field, it gives me great pleasure to see that his work continues to be an inspiration to medical students and others around the world. My grandparents were both physicians (unusual back then for a female) and were cousins of William Carlos Williams oversaw his practice while he was in Europe writing.

Kudos to Ms. Wlodarski. I like her message. In this day and age we should all be so bold.
All bets are in. And I've got all my moneyon myself, Because someone should."

Release Date: 03-13-2009

The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) Human Values in Medicine Program has announced that second-year University of Vermont medical student Jennifer Wlodarski has received an Honorable Mention in the 27th annual William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition for her poem "Slow Horse".

Open to medical students attending schools of medicine or osteopathy in the United States and Canada, the competition is named in memory of William Carlos Williams, a physician-poet born in 1883 who practiced medicine in his hometown of Rutherford, N.J., while writing and publishing poetry with peers including Ezra Pound. Poems in the competition, which were judged on the basis of craftsmanship, originality and content, must be original, unpublished (except for college publications) and have not won a contest at time of submission. English department faculty at NEOUCOM's consortium universities served as initial judges, with final judging by Richard M. Berlin, M.D., psychiatrist and poet from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The editors of the Journal of Medical Humanities reviewed the winning poems, which are considered for possible publication.

Slow Horse
Come back and outlast,
Likethe slow horse.
All bets are in.
And I've got allmy moneyon myself,
Because someone should.
— Jennifer Wlodarski