All posts by Lia Vellardita
Solo Piano, Untitled #5
Zachary D. Goldberger, MD School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine 2015 Song, 4:37
Six Questions for Dian Yao
Dian Yao is a Financial Specialist III in the School of Medicine and Public Health’s Fiscal Affairs Transaction Team and has had multiple watercolor paintings and drawings published in Corpus Callosum, including Golden Dreams (Fall 2021), The Art of Still Life (Spring 2022), Fisherman’s Wharf (Fall 2022), Peking Opera (Fall 2023), and Life Cycle (Spring 2024).…
Six Questions for Ryan McAdams
Ryan McAdams is a Pediatrics professor and Neonatology Division Chief in the School of Medicine and Public Health’s Department of Pediatrics Division of Neonatology. A visual artist and writer, he has had several paintings, including Surf (Inaugural Issue), Dying Alone (Fall 2020), Disequilibrium (Fall 2021), The Rejected (Spring 2022), and Lucanian Dream (Fall 2023), and…
Editor’s Note, Spring 2024
Dear Reader, Spring has arrived with all its signature hallmarks: new growth, longer days, and ever-changing weather patterns. This, too, means that the spring issue of Corpus Callosum is here and in it is a packed slate of music, visual arts, and writings, from both new and returning artists. While we always receive more visual…
The Waiting
Kurt Swanson, MD School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem Not enough organs For those needing transplants I grieve for our Waiting Who waited without a chance Of receiving what they needed Whose time ran out Before the Gift of Life could restore What Failure left them without To…
A Seal through Time
Jonathan Temte, MD, PhD School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Essay We arrived in Madison the same fall; both relocating from the Pacific Northwest. It was 1983. I was moving out of a marine mammal graduate program at Oregon State University to attend Medical School at the University of Wisconsin; she was on…
The Reason We Are Here
Claudia Vilela Casaretto School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem I woke up after a surgery And my mother was crying I clutched the stuffed dalmatian the nurse handed to me The same one I held on the plane ride from Lima Todo estará bien She would tell me Todo estará bien?…
Little Heart Attacks
Erika Enk University Health Services, Medical Services 2018 Poem I don’t mean to make you cry. I mean nothing, but this has not kept you From peeling away my body, layer by layer, The tears clouding your eyes… —Suji Kwock Kim My baby brother hated onions. Sitting next to Mom, five years old, he…
Grief’s Ghost
Edith-Marie Green School of Medicine and Public Health, Population Health Sciences 2023 Short story The Charlotte Wymond Memorial Library closes, on most nights, promptly at eight. Any students still browsing the stacks are ushered out, the random senior napping on the couch woken up, last check-outs completed, and research paused for as long as…