Annals Poetry Prize

Annals of Internal Medicine is offering a $500 prize for the best poem submitted to Annals in 2011. The winning poem is selected by a panel lead by Dr. Michael LaCombe and 2 to 3 external judges.

We look forward to receiving your poems.

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Congratulations to Sarah Leeper, winner of the 2010 Annals Poetry Prize. Her poem "What I Remember Most" was published in the 4 January 2010 issue (vol. 152, no. 1, page 68). Ms. Leeper is a medical student at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Annals extends thanks to the contest judges: Daniel Bosch, whose most recent manuscript of poems is Death's Doorman, and Abigail Zuger, MD, a regular contributor to The New York Times and author of Strong Shadows: Scenes from an Inner City AIDS Clinic (WH Freeman, 1995).

Congratulations to our past winners:

2009: Beth Lown, MD, "Leylo and the Land Mine"
(published 7 July 2009 [vol. 151, issue 1, page 62])

2008: Bhuvana Chandra, MD, "Six Haiku"
(published 2 September 2008 [vol. 149, issue 5, page 367])

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