Poet and NBM Lab member, Alisha Kaplan, discusses her work, narrative-based medicine teaching, writing tips, and connections to her life on Bela Farm. She also shares her work and interest in food as medicine.
About Our Guest:
Alisha Kaplan is a poet, educator, and practitioner of narrative medicine. Using the arts, she works with health professionals and patients to reinvigorate medicine with care and humanity.
Alisha is also a food is medicine advocate. She splits her time between Toronto and Bela Farm, where she grows garlic, harvests honey and wild plant medicine, and hosts barn dances. Her poetry collection, Qorbanot: Offerings, a collaboration with artist Tobi Kahn, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets.
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