Narrative Medicine Lunch & Learn

Fall 2024 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.

In-Person Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Fridays at Wake Downtown. Room 1617. 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR ALL OF THE SESSIONS BELOW

September 20th
Reading: “Tiger House” by Ella Hormel from Smokelong Quarterly (flash fiction)

October 18th
Reading: “Maple Syrup” by Donald Hall (poem)

November 22nd
Viewing: “Nothing to Declare” by MGMT (song/music video/short film)
Lyrics

December 6th
Readings: TBA

Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays:

(Click on the date to register for each individual Zoom session)

September 19th
Reading: “Tiger House” by Ella Hormel from Smokelong Quarterly (flash fiction)

October 17th
Reading: “Maple Syrup” by Donald Hall (poem)

November 21st
Viewing: “Nothing to Declare” by MGMT (song/music video/short film)
Lyrics

December 5th
Readings: TBA

Summer 2024 Schedule

May 24th
Reading: “I’m rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time” by Arianna Monet (poem)

June 21st
Reading: “Claude Monet, ‘The Artist’s Garden at Vetheuil,’ 1880” by Ciaran Carson (poem)

July 19th
Reading: “It’s About the Size of a Clenched Fist” by Richie Zaborowske from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction 

August 16th
Readings: “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee and “Meditation on a Grapefruit” by Craig Arnold (poems) 

Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays:

May 23rd
Reading: “I’m rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time” by Arianna Monet (poem) 

June 20th
Reading: “Claude Monet, ‘The Artist’s Garden at Vetheuil,’ 1880” by Ciaran Carson (poem)

July 18th
Reading: “It’s About the Size of a Clenched Fist” by Richie Zaborowske from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction 

August 15th
Readings: “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee and “Meditation on a Grapefruit” by Craig Arnold (poems)

Spring 2024 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.
Lunch will be provided.

In-Person Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Fridays at Wake Downtown, Room 4903 

January 26th
The reading for discussion is a piece of short fiction by Sara Hills called “Hey Lisa I Hope You Like” from Smokelong Quarterly (click title for link). 

February 23rd
The piece we will be discussing this month is the song “Anthem” by Leonard Cohen. Click here to listen. Click here to read the lyrics. 

March 22nd
The reading for discussion is a short piece of creative nonfiction by Terri Kent called “My Father Becomes a Bird” from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (click title for link). 

April 26th
The reading for discussion is the poem “Beginnings” by Jacqueline Johnson (click title for link). 

Online/Zoom Sessions will take place from 12:00-1:15pm on the following Thursdays:

January 25th
The reading for discussion is a piece of short fiction by Sara Hills called “Hey Lisa I Hope You Like” from Smokelong Quarterly (click title for link). 

February 22nd
The piece we will be discussing this month is the song “Anthem” by Leonard Cohen. Click here to listen. Click here to read the lyrics. 

March 21st
The reading for discussion is a short piece of creative nonfiction by Terri Kent called “My Father Becomes a Bird” from Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction (click title for link). 

April 25th
The reading for discussion is the poem “Beginnings” by Jacqueline Johnson (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.