Wednesday, August 31
7pm Pacific Time
“A DOCTOR ONLY PRETENDS: POEMS ABOUT ILLNESS, DEATH, AND IN-BETWEEN”
Please join us on Wednesday night, August 31, 2022, 7-8 pm, for an evening with Abby Caplin as she reads from her poetry. Her poems offer insights and reflections on the human condition— our predicaments, joys, sorrows, as well as topics related to Jewish identity. She’ll be including poems from her new book “A Doctor Only Pretends: Poems About Illness, Death, and In-between”, recently reviewed online in Tikkun Magazine.
Abby Caplin is the author of “A Doctor Only Pretends: Poems About Illness, Death, and In-between” (May, 2022). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, Moon City Review, Pennsylvania English, Salt Hill, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Southampton Review, Tikkun, and elsewhere. Among her awards, she has been a finalist for the Rash Award in Poetry and the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award, a semi-finalist for the Willow Run Poetry Book Award, and a nominee for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and the Pushcart Prize. Abby is a physician and practices mind-body medicine and counseling in San Francisco, California. She lives with her husband Ami and cat Cosette. www.abbycaplin.com