Poetry & Short Stories
Amy’s poetry and short stories can be found in several online and print publications.
The Official House Story of What My Brother was Like as a Child
2026 Writer's Digest Award Winner
(Honorable Mention)
No One Comes Here to Pray
Ibbetson Street #59
Ever After Your Head Injury
Hiram Poetry Review
A Pantoum in Memory of Alex Pretti
Nursology
Triage at the Chophouse Restaurant
Pulse
Ballerina in the Alley
Sangam Literary Magazine (Page 16)
The Day After Memorial Day
Bellevue Literary Review
Colors Floating on Water & Elegy For My Breast
Inverted Syntax Press
Overture
Our Break Room
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)
At Rehab
Journal of the Humanities in Rehabilitation
Cafeteria – 2013
Persimmon Tree
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
Additional 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
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.
Lives Radio Show & Podcast
Every Sunday at 9am on KIOS 91.5FM, Omaha’s NPR affiliate, Season Three of Lives tackles the big questions: What is a good life? Why are we here? How might we feel more connected?
These and other big questions about how we live will be explored each week by host Stuart Chittenden—an existential coach, Certified Humanist Professional, and the creator and host of Lives Radio Show & Podcast. You can tune in or stream online to listen to the podcast of Stuart’s interview with Amy Haddad from Sunday, July 26 here (or wherever you get your podcasts). The interview explores a range of topics including Amy’s poetry.
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.