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Mirror Stage ( An Augmented Reality Poem), Ger Killeen

Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine

Poetic text with accompanying digital art image which triggers an augmented reality effect exploring psychological aspects of trauma.
Instructions for readers:

1. Point mobile camera at QR code and tap to activate
2. Tap “Launch” and accept the permissions
3. Point camera at artwork and tap to start the augmentation

Biographical Note:
Ger Killeen is a former professor of English and New Media at Marylhurst University. He is a digital multimedia artist and poet who uses various AR and AI tools to augment literary texts and physical artworks.

Excerpt From: {Being About To Ascend}, Steven B. Katz

Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine

This poem constitutes a different take on the theme of this special issue of Survive and Thrive—“Diversity and Community in Narrative Medicine and the Medical Humanities.” An excerpt from a longer poem under development, the poem here is a story of human frailty and limitation at the end of Anthropocene, the end of the age of humans on Earth—perhaps sometime in the not-too-distant future. This poem is thus a “speculative” or “science fiction” story about what happens to a species indigenous and totally adapted to and dependent on the Earth, and which cannot survive anywhere else, must. Facing extinction, the …

Editors’ Note To Vol 5: Issue 1: On Publishing Survive And Thrive: Journal Of Medical Humanities And Narrative Medicine During The 2020 Global Pandemic, Steven B. Katz, Suzanne Black

Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine

This Editors' Note reflects the thoughts and feelings of the Editors of _Survive and Thrive_ on Vol 5: Issue 1, summarizes its contents, and reflects on the publication of the issue during a global pandemic. While the issue is not a direct response to the pandemic, the Editors humbly offer it as what writer, rhetorician, and literary critic Kenneth Burke called "equipment for living."

A Tributary, To Poetry And Its Teachers, Avesa I. Rockwell

Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine

This personal essay accompanies a reprint of Jimmy Santiago Baca's poem "What's Real and What's Not." It pays tribute to the secondary English teacher who introduced the author to Baca, and to Baca himself, who made several notable appearances in her life.

Thank you, David Beard, for your encouragement and guidance.