Poetry & Short Stories

Amy’s poetry and short stories can be found in several print and online publications.

Print Publications

  • Aji Magazine
  • American Journal of Nursing
  • Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities
  • Bellevue Literary Review
  • DASH
  • Fruits of Our Quarantine
  • Health Humanities Reader
  • Janus Head
  • Journal of Medical Humanities
  • Oberon Poetry Magazine
  • Pulse
  • The Healing Muse
  • The 2023 One Page Poetry Anthology
  • Touch

Online Publications

Lei-Making in Kansas

Sad Girl Diaries

A List of Questions for the Oncologist

Months to Years

Reduced to Nouns

Abandoned Mine

What to Do When You Are No Longer in Remission

Rogue Agent Journal

Running the Scans Gauntlet

Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

Exam Rooms Are Often Windowless, Grandma’s Letters – Just Another Mortal

Please See Me (Winter Issue #12, Diagnosis)
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At Rehab

Journal of the Humanities in Rehabilitation

Cafeteria – 2013

Persimmon Tree
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Early Morning Clinical Rounds

SANA: Self-Achievement Through Nursing Art

Angry Crow

Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Summer 2021, Issue 7.2

Her First Nursing Care Plan

Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Centered

Lot’s Wife

Compass Rose Literary Journal

Harbingers of Death List

Hare’s Paw Literary Journal

The Hand in Repose

Medmic: Conversations, Culture and Creativity from the Health Care Community

Dream Where We Arrange a Bedroom for Dying

Redheaded Stepchild Magazine

Ode to a Cobweb Weaver

Book of Matches

My Father’s Shoeshine Kit

West Trestle Review

Articles & Anthologies

  • (2023). “The Most Potent Weapon,” (poem). The 2023 One Page Poetry Anthology, Colin Graham, Ed. One Page Poetry Publisher, Monee, IL.
  • (2020). Thinking about difficulty: Using poetry to enhance interpretative and collaborative skills in healthcare ethics education. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 29: 459-469. doi:10.1017/S0963180120000201.
  • (2018). “Ablutions” (short story revised from 2000 version) in J. Bryner and C. Davis (Eds.), Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, pp. 26-31.
  • (2015). “The one she calls milk” (poem). Pulse: voices from the heart of medicine - Editors’ picks - a third anthology, Paul Gross and Diane Guernsey (Eds.), pp. 138-139.
  • (2015). “Angry Crow” (poem). In Written Here: The Community of Writers Poetry Review (2013) p.21.
  • (2014). “Second degree block” (poem) and commentary. In T. Jones, D. Wear, and L.D. Friedman (Eds.), Health Humanities Reader. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick, NJ, pp. 122-124.
  • (2007). Stereotactic biopsy & What if they said. . . (poems). In M. Hurst & S. DasGupta (Eds.), Stories of illness and healing: Women write their bodies (pp. 74-77). Kent State University Press.
  • (2006). Dehiscence, Asking for direction, Girding for battle, & Chemotherapy lounge (poems and commentary). In J. Schaefer (Ed.), The poetry of nursing: Poems and commentaries of leading nurse-poets (pp. 71-80). Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.
  • (2003). Conversations with Wendy, Ten items or less, & Port-a-cath (poems). In C. Davis & J. Schaefer (Eds.), Intensive care: More poetry and prose by nurses. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press.

Video Series

Watch this video series featuring Amy Haddad presenting four of her original poems.

The Geography of Kitchens, Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY.

An Otherwise Healthy Woman, Backwaters Press, Lincoln, NE.

DASH Literary Journal, 13th Edition, pages 76-79.

DASH Literary Journal, 13th Edition, pages 76-79.