Join us for an evening of Holism, Humor, and Hormones in the Poetry of Healing. Denise Duhamel, award-winning poet and Professor in FIU’s Creative Writing Department, has infused much of her poetry with an uncanny ability to portray the inner life of children and teens. Along the way—or maybe to start with—she discovered the power of humor, of taking a step back to view better, and of integrating mind and body. Her poems bring us, often, to laughter, and poignancy, and recognition. Denise will read from her collections. Sheldon Frank has had a first career as child-adolescent psychiatrist and medical school teacher, working to help children maintain self-esteem and growth in the face of both normal and disease-caused assaults from physical and emotional traumas. As a growing number of his medical colleagues, he has found the power of literature to both express and fortify his patients’ journeys. He will read from the M.F.A. thesis he will present this fall. 7pm