Poetry Events and Performances
Please use the "contact" function for inquiries about poetry readings, lectures, seminars, and workshops. Recordings of some sessions are available upon request.
Seminars, Talks, and Lectures
Grand Rounds
2024: University of Rochester Medical Humanities Grand Rounds, title TBD
2024: Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Grand Rounds, "Narrative in Psychiatry"
2024: Hackensack Meridian Health Network Ethics Grand Rounds, "Pay Attention, Be Brave: Narrative Competency in the Clinical Encounter"
2023: Hackensack University Medical Center Department of Pain and Palliative Care, "How We Create Distance from Disability: Pedestals, Shock, and Humanity"
Lectures
2024: Women's Alliance Speaker Series, "The Boneheap in the Lion's Den: Poetry, Pain, and Perseverance"
2023: Hackensack University Medical Center Department of Pain and Palliative Care, "Persons in Progress: A Workshop"
2023: The Holton Arms School, "The Boneheap in the Lion's Den: My Journey as a 'Poet and…'"
2023: Rutgers Health Network, "Introduction to Narrative Medicine"
2023: Jefferson Health Network, "Moratorium: Gun Violence and Poetry"
2023: Narrative Medicine as Social Justice speaker series at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, "Metaphor as Medicine"
2022: Keynote Speech for the Annual Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration for the Walt Whitman Association, "Become a Poet and…"
2022: Annual Retreat Keynote Speaker for Philly Metro Midwives, "The Value of Narrative in Medicine"
2022: Till the Last Doula, "Introduction to Narrative Medicine: A Workshop"
2021: Kaiser Permanente Nurse Practitioners, "Micropoetry and Close Reading the Patient"
2021: Memorial Hermann Hospital Faculty and Staff, "Introduction to Narrative Medicine: A Workshop Series"
2021: Columbia Post-Bac Students, "How We Create Distance from Disability: Pedestals, Shock, and Humanity"
2021: Made Visible, "Writing the Specific: Detail in Illness Narratives"
Performances and Poetry Readings
"Poets in Healthcare: A Reading and Discussion with Stacy R. Nigliazzo, Maya J. Sorini, Steve Cushman" September 2023 via Press 53
"The Boneheap in the Lions Den by Maya Sorini - Talk and book signing" May 2023 with Rockville Presbyterian Church
"The Boneheap in the Lion's Den: Poetry Reading and Book Launch", April 2023 via Press 53
Poetry reading for the Arts and Medicine Plenary at the Mid Atlantic Society of General Internal Medicine's Annual Meeting, October 2022
Poetry Performance for Frontline Arts at their 2022 Annual Benefit, Pathways and Confluences April 2022