SPOTLIGHT -
March 27th 2025
"All redeeming Nature knows, You cannot stop the spring."
March 25th 2025
A psychiatrist reflects on the challenges we weather and the enduring search for hope and unity.
March 18th 2025
"I guessed heart failure. The answer was pneumonia."
February 27th 2025
"Connect me to all children, Under undue distress all ‘round the world, Shaping the future of our warring lands..."
February 13th 2025
"It is the winter of chest pain and snow, all the drunks smashed through the ER doors..."
Invisible People
A physician living with mental illness shares their experience through poetry.
Three Digit Light
Reflections on the new suicide hotline...
"The Not Dead"
"...the fresh cut grass a living carpet where all of us lay down and dream death will come to everyone except me."
BIPOC MD/DO Investment
A psychiatrist reflects on the past, present, and future for BIPOC MDs and DOs.
The Not Dead
"We call them The Not Dead when they crumple in an easy chair after chemo..."
A Little Closer to the Edge
"O mother, O minutehand, teach me how to hold a man the way thirst holds water. Let every river envy our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body like a season."
Reflecting on Another Mass Shooting
A physician assistant writes a poem inspired by the recent mass shooting in Uvalde.
Sequelae
Poetic reflections on today's news...
Thank You
"...you are the air of the now and gone..."
Fatherly Attributes
A psychiatrist's reflections on Father's Day.
A Psychiatrist's Reflections: Jubilant Juneteenth
Reflections on Juneteenth...
"The Algebra of Kindness"
"And we laughed again because he made us feel safe and loved, even when we stumbled, his calculated goal to teach us how to solve for X when X equals kindness."
The Algebra of Kindness
There are only three kinds of people in the world, those who are good at math and those who aren’t.
The Bridge
"And right here, walking down this street, I love the way we make a bridge..."
Bullets: Psychiatric and Humanistic Reflections in a Haiku
Catatonic Humanity
A psychiatrist reflects on society's catatonic state.
The Power of Words: Achieving Catharsis While Mourning Tragedies
Sometimes poetry can help in processing tragedies and traumas.
Today
"...well, today is just that kind of day."
Making a Fist
"Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own."
Enough
A psychiatrist reflects on yesterday's tragedy in Texas.
"I Cursed Him"
"My mind screams, Sociopath! Liar! but I know he’s gone..."
I Hope
What do you do when there seems to be too much sorrow and hate in the world? One psychiatrist answers, "I hope..."
I Cursed Him
All in Green Went My Love Riding
"All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn..."
Personified Uterus
A psychiatrist reflects on recent events.
Psychological Reflections on Miscarriage
When helping patients in the hardest moments of their lives, it is important to have empathy for them—and for ourselves.
1969
"...we came in peace for all mankind. Then returned to continue the war."
A Headlong Act of Love: The Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award
The Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award is rewarding future doctors and poets alike.
Exfoliation
We can all benefit from a mental health facial.
Celebrating National Poetry Month
Psychiatric Times contributors share poems about psychiatric issues from grief to Black mental health.
