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Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn

Fall 2025 Schedule

Narrative Medicine: Lunch & Learn is a monthly workshop – free and open to all WFU students, faculty, staff, and community members – that introduces participants to Narrative Medicine and its core principles of close reading and reflective writing. Sponsored by the WFU Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, & Healing Initiative, made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Facilitators: Aimee Mepham, MFA, Associate Director of the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and Ethan Stonerook, PA-C, MPAS, Assistant Professor, WF School of Medicine, Department of PA Studies.

Fall 2025 Schedule

The first In-Person Session of Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn for the Fall 2025 semester will take place on Tuesday, September 9th from 12:00-1:15pm. It will feature a visit from special guest poet Martin Dyar!

Martin Dyar is the author of the new poetry collection The Meek (Wake Forest University Press) and the editor of the poetry anthology Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing (Poetry Ireland, 2022). A Vital Signs poetry and music tour, which visited care homes and mental health facilities across Ireland, was produced by the Festival in a Van company in 2023.

In-Person Sessions, 12:00-1:15pm on the following dates:
(Click on the date to register for each in-person session)

Tuesday, September 9th with Special Guest Poet Martin Dyar!
Reading / creative text: “The History of Medicine” by Martin Dyar
Friday, October 10th
Reading / creative text: TBA
Friday, November 14th
Reading / creative text: TBA
Friday, December 5th
Reading / creative text: TBA

Zoom Sessions, 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays
(Click on the date to register for each individual Zoom session)

September 11th
Reading / creative text: “The History of Medicine” by Martin Dyar

October 9th
Reading / creative text: TBA

November 13th
Reading / creative text: TBA

December 4th
Reading / creative text: TBA

Summer 2025 Schedule

Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays for Summer 2025:
(Click on the date to register for each individual Zoom session)

June 12th
Reading: “So Many Tiny Stories” by Sean Lovelace from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (click title for link)

July 10th
Reading: “[into the strenuous briefness]” by E. E. Cummings (click title for link)

August 7th
Reading: “The Thing That Is Breathing For My Father” by Francine Witte from Vestal Review (click title for link)

If you have any questions about Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn, please contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, at mephamam@wfu.edu.