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The Center for Literature and Medicine is home to a distinctive interdisciplinary program at Hiram C

09/10/2026

We are very much looking forward to hosting author Jill Christman on Thursday, September 24, for a reading from and discussion of her new memoir THE HEART FOLDS EARLY.

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This book is about what it means to make a choice. As mothers, how do we carry life and death in our bodies and survive with our hearts intact?

In The Heart Folds Early, Jill Christman folds the mournful recklessness of the twenty-year-old widow she was against the backdrop of her later marriage and new motherhood, including the choice to end a half-term pregnancy when a routine ultrasound revealed her baby boy had just half a heart. Courageous, clear-eyed, tender, and unexpectedly funny, Christman’s book reflects on her life and asks: What happens when we’re afraid the worst thing will happen and then, sometimes, it does? What does it mean to make and live with a heartrending choice?...The Heart Folds Early asks us to let our conversations around reproductive rights and abortion be as complicated and nuanced as they need to be, remembering—always—that an imagined choice is not a choice.

https://jillchristman.com/books/the-heart-folds-early/

02/28/2026

Join us Monday, March 2 for a reading and discussion with Antoinette Cooper: poet, Collective Trauma Facilitator, and founder of Black Exhale, a non-profit dedicated to healing intergenerational trauma in Black communities. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and serves on the Advisory Board for the City University School of Medicine’s Narrative Medicine Track. Her debut collection of documentary poetry, Unruly, is a groundbreaking work that makes visible Black women’s experiences with medical racism and bodily autonomy.

02/11/2026

On Wednesday, February 25, we welcome author Jonathan Gleason, whose recently-published essay collection, A FIELD GUIDE TO FALLING ILL, was the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize. A 2023 Elizabeth George Grant Recipient and 2024 Granum Foundation finalist, Gleason's work has also appeared in the Best American Essays (2024), The Sun Magazine, New England Review, and Kenyon Review. He teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. Join us in the KC Ballroom at 5 PM for a reading and discussion!

03/06/2025

Can poetry enhance clinical practice? The William Carlos Williams Poetry Contest makes us think so! 📚🩺

Mark your calendars for the prestigious William Carlos Williams Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony on Saturday, March 15th from 4:00-5:30 PM at the CWRU Health Education Campus! 🏆✨

As the oldest poetry contest for medical students in the country, this celebration will showcase the winning medical student and physician poets reading their original works. The featured speaker will be Dr. Diana Farid, physician and award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker from Stanford University.

Attend in-person or via Zoom - register here: https://buff.ly/2NFyXiP

Before the ceremony, Dr. Farid will lead a Poetry Writing Workshop designed specifically for medical students and our bioethics students! 🖋️

This event is co-sponsored by the CWRU SOM Humanities Pathway (directed by our own Erin Gentry Lamb, Carl F. Asseff MD, MBA, JD, Designated Professor in Medical Humanities), NEOMED, the CCLCM Program in Medical Humanities, and the Hiram College Center for Literature and Medicine.

Our department proudly supports the humanities in healthcare education because we believe the arts are essential to developing empathetic and thoughtful healthcare professionals. Will we see you there? 🤔

01/14/2025

Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday January 15 at 7 PM for a talk by scientist and writer Joseph Osmundson, author of VIROLOGY.

03/22/2024

We're so excited to have a second helping of Kelli Dunham at Hiram! Please join us Wednesday, March 27 at 7 PM in the Showboat Theater to welcome Kelli back to campus for SECOND HELPING.

03/18/2024

Please join us tomorrow, Tuesday March 19 at 5 PM in the Kennedy Center Ballroom for a presentation by Dr. Blair Bigham on his recent book DEATH INTERRUPTED: HOW MODERN MEDICINE IS COMPLICATING THE WAY WE DIE.

03/06/2024

Announcing Deathfest! Mark your calendars for three thought-provoking, life-affirming events to round out the Spring 12-week semester.

10/16/2023

Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 17: Documentary Filmmaker Holly Hey and co-producer Allyson Day, PhD. co-host an evening about grassroots care and community organizing in Toledo, Ohio during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

Screening and discussion at 7 PM in the Kennedy Center Ballroom. Free and open to the public.

09/25/2023

Tonight, along with Hiram College's The Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature, we welcome Cleveland-based author and educator Raechel Anne Jolie for a reading and discussion of her memoir RUST BELT FEMME, named one of NPR's Best Books of 2020, and winner of the 2020 Independent Publisher Awards' gold medal for LGBTQ+ nonfiction. The event will be at 7 PM in the Kennedy Center Ballroom, and is free and open to the public.

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PO Box 67, Mahan House
Hiram, OH
44234

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+13305696139

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http://www.hiram.edu/academics/center-of-distinction/center-for-literature-medicine/

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