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Millie Niss's poems and my essays posted this morning at http://www.cell2soul.typepad.com/ Not easy, folks, but this is what I am trying to do with The Last Collaboration, which is on the Furtherfield site. http://www.furtherfield.org/friendsofspork/ Has a great essay by Edward Picot, too. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/last-collaboration Edward's story has had more than 2330 hits. I don't know about The Last Collaboration though. Is there a way to add a counter after the fact? At any rate, this experimental "fatality review" laced with poetry has clearly been viewed by a respectable number of people. And Michael Szpakowski has had something to do with it, too, because he launched a "stress exercise" signed on to by web artists and others from at least 7 countries to get it started. To say nothing of Furtherfield, which published the online version. Some people have even bought the book -- could use more buyers. It's on amazon in both the UK and US. I am aware of great dissatisfaction with Amazon these days including calls to purchase books elsewhere. But for small publishing enterprises, like The Last Collaboration, amazon is virtually the only distributor. And I have been able to use the book as a jumping-off point or foundation for other web posts, mostly on medical humanity sites: KevinMD, Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, ProPublica (the Facebook page of a health journalism organization), and most recently (this morning) C2S (link at top of this post). A professor at New York University's School of Medicine has already used the Furtherfield version of The Last Collaboration with two sets of residents. And the e-book is in the curriculum of a professional patient advocate training program at University of Toledo (Ohio, not Spain). So I hope the Furtherfield site will continue to gain visitors. Plus, I will be presenting at a medical conference next month: Quality Counts 2013 at Augusta, Maine. My co-presenter is the chief medical officer of a large Maine hospital system, and we will be examining one of the events in the hospital that led to Millie's death. All of our work on the presentation is being done on the web -- with confirmatory phone calls once in awhile. I have been a writer my entire adult life (at least), and so I find it a challenge -- mostly satisfying -- to play with the task of getting out the word. These developments, arising from publication on Furtherfield are in keeping (I think) with Furtherfield's mission statement in relation to social justice. Thank you, Furtherfield. Martha -- The Last Collaboration http://www.amazon.com Read online http://www.furtherfield.org/friendsofspork/ Intro by Edward Picot http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/last-collaboration City Bird: Selected Poems (1991-2009) by Millie Niss, edited by Martha Deed http://blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/ |
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