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Gene Hirsch
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Gene Hirsch is an academic geriatrician who, for many years, has taught human values and the emotional care of sick and dying people to medical students and doctors. He has conducted poetry workshops widely for health professionals as an expressive adjunct to their caring experiences, as well as for poets in Western NC. He initiated a writing program at the John C. Campbell Folk School and has taught there for 22 years. His poetry has appeared in medical and non-medical journals such as Pharos (Medical Honor Society), Hiram Poetry Review, Journal of Medical Humanities, Fetishes (Univ. of Colorado), and The Journal of the American Medical Society. He has written two books, Along the Rutty Pot Hole Road and You Shall Die Again No More. Anthologies include The Brentwood Anthology, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, Tyranny of the Normal, Crossing Limits:African Americans and American Jews. He has produced five volumes of Freeing Jonah, poetry from Western North Carolina. His poem, Maria Sabina, won first prize in the Westmoreland Poetry Contest in 2019.
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