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12. Epilogue: Nevertheless
Alicia Ostriker
31 Days of Pink Ribbon Poetry: Introduction
Words and digital images by Alysa Cummings
7. Wintering
Alicia Ostriker
9. Healing
Alicia Ostriker
Absurdities to Live For
Carolyn Brandon
Affirmation
Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad
After Cancer
Shannon Olin Kresge
After My Last Chemo Appointment I Steal Page Six from The Children's Illustrated Book of Bible Stories
Kelli Russell Agodon
Alone
Katherine Traynham
Amethyst House
Timothy Rowe
And When She Was Bad
Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad
Anger in a Group Setting
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Another Time Around
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Apricot Jam
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
The Bad Man
Shannon Olin Kresge
The Beast
Anonymous
Before And After
Tommie Ortega
The Beginning of a New Day . . .
Anonymous
Begins with the Letter C
Helen Diane Gibson
Binary View
Michael White
Bird Feeder
Ellen Goldsmith
Blossoms, Frost and Faith
George Krumenacker
Breast Cancer Support Meeting Tonight
& Refreshments Will Be Served
Alysa Cummings
Breast Cancer: My Story
Meredith K. Biegel
Breastless
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Breathing
Sandy Marcus
Business Not as Usual
Anne Silver
Calming the Cyclone
Richard Harvey
Cancer
Emily S. Regnier-Franz
Cancer
Lisa M. Lehman
Cancer
Timothy Rowe
Cancer Cat Sonnet
Alysa Cummings
Cancer gets served
Richard Harvey
Cancer Is Not The End
Timothy Rowe
The Cancer Patient Talks Back
Molly Redmond
Cancer Scripts, in poems and pictures
Poetry selected and digital images created by Alysa Cummings
CancerLand in the First Person
Words and digital pictures by Alysa Cummings
Care Givers
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Celebration
James Pharis, Jr.
Changing Partners
Anne Silver
Chemo Songs
Jane Wisniewski
Chemotherapy
Ellen Goldsmith
Collection of Poems by Richard Harvey
Richard Harvey
A Connection
Emily S. Regnier-Franz
Craig Czury: 4 O'CLOCK (Nelda)
Craig Czury
Dear Doctor
Jane Wisniewski
The Diagnosis
James Lynch
Diagnosis, Cancer
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Dime On!
Richard Harvey
Dracula Meets a Chemo-Poet
Helene Davis
Dragonfly Rescue
Patricia Fontaine
Dreams of Being a Cowgirl
Cari Kastama
Everywhere
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Excellent Day
Richard Harvey
The Face
James Pharis, Jr.
Farewell to Hair
Terri Hanson
The Fight
Timothy Rowe
Footsteps and Stars: An Anthology
By Catherine Evans Schutte
For My Mother
Emily S. Regnier-Franz
For Those Who Wait
Shannon Olin Kresge
For You In Faith
James A. Pharis, Jr.
From The Medical Record
Alysa Cummings
Fundamental Physical Constants For Joanne
Jennifer Hill Kaucher
Garden Sonnet Prayer
Alysa Cummings
Geography
Kelli Russell Agodon
Getting Biopsy Results
Patricia Fontaine
Getting Well
Jean Trounstine
The Gingko Tree
James A. Pharis, Jr.
God's Gift
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Got to Get Down to Know
Marion Weber
Haiku
Anne Silver
Handling It
Timothy Rowe
His Blessings
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Hope is the Thing With Petals
Poetry selected and digital images created by Alysa Cummings
Hope is the Thing With Petals: Poetry Submission
Digital images created by Alysa Cummings
Hope is the Thing With Petals: Quotable Hope
Quotes selected and digital images created by Alysa Cummings
How to Live in a Continual Present
Sarah Sutro
How to Stay Alive
Judith Strasser
Howler
Anne Silver
I Am No Longer Afraid
Deena Metzger
I Entered the Room Naked
Nancy Louise Peterson
I Kissed My Father Late
John E. McGuigan
I Pray Today
James A. Pharis, Jr.
If I Could...
By Mike Hall
Illness Is
Anne Silver
Impatient Patient: Introduction
Alysa Cummings
Impatient Patient: Poem
Alysa Cummings
Impatient Patient: Quotes
Collected by Alysa Cummings
In Limbo
Timothy Rowe
In the Biopsy Room
Jean Trounstine
In The Darkness
James A. Pharis, Jr.
In the Hospital
Patricia Goedicke
Isaac Stern's Performance
Hilda Raz
It Does Not Have You
Timothy Rowe
It's a Celebration
Heidi Lynn Brown
Judgment Call
Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad
Just Right
Richard Harvey
The Knife
Joy Harold Helsing
Lament
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Last Thing I See
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Legacy
James Pharis, Jr.
Letter C
Helen Dian
Letters Received
Denise Larrabee
Lifting My Shirt
Patricia Fontaine
Like a Thief in the Night
Timothy Rowe
Limitless
Anne Silver
The Looking Glass
Janet Gordon
Making Chicken Soup
Jean Trounstine
Manifested Best
Richard Harvey
The Mastectomy Poems: 1. The Bridge
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Mastectomy Poems: 2. The Gurney
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Mastectomy Poems
12. Epilogue: Nevertheless
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Meaning of Figs
Kelli Russell Agodon
A Mistake?
Timothy Rowe
Momento
Richard Harvey
Moonsets
Patricia Fontaine
My Brother
Stella Dunstan
My Muse
Richard Harvey
No Easy Way
Timothy Rowe
No Lesser Love
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Now Only One of Us Remains
Patricia Goedicke
O Body
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
One Drop
Michael White
One Good Thing About My Yearly Mammogram
Alysa Cummings
One Hundred and Ten Days
Julie Moulds
One Year Later
Craig Czury
Otherwise
Jane Kenyon
The Path
Ellen Goldsmith
Patsy's Truth
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Perfidy (My Body Has Betrayed Me)
Lisa M. Lehman
Persephone's Bloom
Anne Silver
Pink Ribbon Poetry
Alysa Cummings
Poems
Mark B. Johnson, Sr.
The Power of the Pink Ribbon
Alysa Cummings
Prefatory
Sandra Steingraber
Prognosis
Richard Harvey
Promise
Anne Silver
A Promise to Eurydice
Jane Yolen
Quotable Quotes About Anger
Compiled by: Alysa Cummings
Radiation Treatment
Timothy Rowe
Reconstruction
Alysa Cummings
Recovery
Hilda Raz
Recovery
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Recurrence
Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad
Reminiscence
Ruth Molly James
Remission
Joy Harold Helsing
Repair
Hilda Raz
Robin's Nest
Zapote Gregory
Rose
Katherine Traynham
A Runner's High
Carolyn Temple
Scar Tissue
Laurie O'Brien
Sculpture
Kelli Russell Agodon
Seed
Floyd Skloot
Seeing Beyond Sight
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Seeing Red: Cancer and anger, in poems and pictures
Compiled by: Alysa Cummings
Set Free
Timothy Rowe
Silent Song by Patti Filion
Patti Filion
Slow dancing at the Med-Inn
F. Richard Thomas
Socrates on the Fear of Death
Socrates
Some Spirit 'o Spring Quotable Quotes
Compiled by: Alysa Cummings
Spirit o' Spring - Poems
Compiled by Alysa Cummings
Spring
Jane Wisniewski
Suddenly, Life Changes the diagnosis
Tommie Ortega
A Survivor
Timothy Rowe
Survivor's Guide to Post-Operative Body Image Issues
Alysa Cummings
Symmetry in the Blue Dress Sonnet
Alysa Cummings
Terrible Word
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
That Lucky Guy Sonnet
Alysa Cummings
These Days
Anne Silver
This Breast Surgeon
Alysa Cummings
A Thought
Kiersten Van Houten
Thoughts During Chemo
Marsha Penrose
To Explain
Hilda Raz
To Hell & Back: Cancer, Myth and Meaning
Poetry selected and digital images created by Alysa Cummings
To Hell & Back: Quotable Quotes
Collected by Alysa Cummings
Transformation
James A. Pharis, Jr.
Uterine Cancer
Kimberly Andrews
A Valentine
Jane Wisniewski
A View Today
James A. Pharis, Jr.
A Virtual Interview with Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
A Virtual Q & A with Dr. Karen Ritchie
Author of Angels & Bolters
Waiting
Timothy Rowe
Waiting
John E. McGuigan
Waiting Room
Jane Yolen
Walking the Green Mile Sonnet
Alysa Cummings
We Give Thanks
James A. Pharis, Jr.
WHAT AM I?
Stella Dunstan
What Healing Is
Patricia Fontaine
What I Want
Ellen Goldsmith
What is Class?
Unknown
What You See Ain't What You Get
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Where It's At
Anne Silver
Who's Worth
James A. Pharis, Jr.
With Right of Survivorship
Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad
Wolf Woman
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
The Woman Whose Body Is Not Her Own
Anita Skeen
Womb of the Night Sky
Anne Silver
You Will Be Just Fine
Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad
Your Shadow by Patti Filion
Patti Filion