Pasadena Public Library Presents Doctor Poets & Other Healers

PASADENA – ColoradoBloulevard.net:

On Saturday afternoon, July 30, at the Lamanda Park Branch Library, healthcare workers will share their journeys through the COVID-19 pandemic.

By News Desk

Pasadena Public Library presents a conversation with a selection of the poets and essayists from “Doctor Poets & Other Healers: COVID-19 in Their Own Words with Poems & Personal Essays” on Saturday, July 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Lamanda Park Branch Library, 140 S Altadena Dr., when several healthcare workers share their journeys through the COVID-19 pandemic with poems and personal essays.

Healthcare workers faced an unimaginable challenge head-on when confronted with the pandemic. Undeniably changed, they banded together in the field and on the page, sharing their journey. In this anthology, 26 poets and essayists—physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, private caregivers, holistic practitioners, medical school students and a hospital chaplain—share their personal experiences

• tending to patients,
• dealing with loss, uncertainty, grief and isolation, and
• surviving in a world turned topsy-turvy by a once-in-a-century pandemic.

All found their way through resilience, selflessness and the eternal flame of hope.

The Pasadena Public Library is an information center for the Pasadena community. In order to preserve and encourage the free expression of ideas essential to an informed citizenry, a. variety of highly vetted programs are presented for children and adults. They represent the research and opinions of the presenters and do not reflect an endorsement by the City of Pasadena nor the Pasadena Public Library.