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Jane Hartshorn, Poet: Chronic Illness & Female Sexuality
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Join poet Jane Harsthorn and me for a discussion about chronic illness and female sexuality. Hear Jane recite some of her poetry and explain what it's like living and working with Crohn's disease.
Jane Hartshorn is a poet and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kent. Her first pamphlet, Tract, was published in 2017 by Litmus Publishing, and her second pamphlet, In the Sick Hour with Takeaway Press, in 2020. Her poems are published by Boudicca Press, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, amberflora, & para-text. She is the editor at Ache Magazine.
Links from the episode:
University of Kent Medical Humanities
Dr. Rita Charon – narrative medicine
Narrative Medicine, Rita Charon
Time Lived Without Its flow, Denise Riley