Sharon M. Van Sluijs is a writer/science writer for SMPH’s Department of Pediatrics, and has had three of her poems published in Corpus Callosum: Yes is an Apple (Spring 2022), On the Death of the Cook (Fall 2022), and Late Spring Snow Storm (Spring 2023). Editor’s note: the terms art and artists are used as…
Zachary Goldberger (he/him) wears many hats as Associate Professor, Associate Chief (Education), and Program Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship in SMPH’s Department of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Several of his musical compositions—Solo Piano, Untitled (Spring 2021), Solo Piano, Untitled #2 (Fall 2021), Solo Piano, Untitled #3 (Spring 2022), Solo Piano, Untitled #4 (Fall 2022), Wedding Day…
Dear Reader, As the temperatures drop and this corner of the world turns its thoughts to the end of the semester, we present to you the Fall 2023 issue of Corpus Callosum. In it, you will find a bounty of creativity to explore from artists familiar and new, as well as more interviews from current…
Audra Koscik School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem Loss A ghost of me follows; she’s timestamped with a date from before. She’s unreachable, unchangeable. I’ll be whole again, but she’ll always be there in the past. Two different people, split by loss.
Sharon M. Van Sluijs School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2019 Poem Because you insist on loving so desperately this always transient beauty— tulip masses breaking into glorious petaled cups, great phalanxes of daffodils waving sunny saffron heads and frilled trumpet throats (as in those famous lines, two hundred years ago),…
Rebecca Nye, MPH School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem Icy cool in sticky June, the russet ceramic tiles sealed with crumbling caulk welcomed the meeting of a chestnut burnished banister accompanied by brushed-iron balusters knotted like the trunks of maples. Dimpled hands trembled with might up each step, fingers clutching textured cigarette-perfumed…
