Michael Salcman

Michael Salcman is a former chairman of neurosurgery, University of Maryland, and president of The Contemporary Museum, a child of the Holocaust and a survivor of polio. Poems in Blue Unicorn, Hopkins Review, Hudson Review, New Letters, Notre Dame Review, Raritan and Smartish Pace. Books include Clock Made of Confetti (nominated The Poets' Prize), The Enemy of Good is Better, Poetry in Medicine: classic and contemporary medical poems, A Prague Spring (Sinclair Poetry Prize), Shades & Graces (Daniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize), Necessary Speech: New & Selected Poems, and Crossing the Tape (2024).