R.C. Blenis
@hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social
Poet, nurse, essayist. Paying attention for a living. Writing it down for free. rcblenis.com
What are we helping a patient do when we ask, “Can you tell me more?” My new JAPNA paper proposes that therapeutic communication can scaffold how people retrieve and organize personal memories. "Read the paper" (doi.org/10.1177/1078...) #PsychSky #AcademicSky
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Some wonderful news: “Incantations” has won the 2026 Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, selected by Ross Gay. I’m honored and grateful that the essay found this home. Forthcoming Winter 2026–27.
A 9-year-old is referred for anxiety and school refusal. Medication and CBT help, but the school resistance persists, worst on days with a lot of writing. Two years later, someone asks the child to write a sentence. The handwriting is illegible. 🧪
POEM 349: "Asterixis" by R.C. Blenis (@hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social) "The liver thinks yellow thoughts. Ask anyone in hepatic failure— blood becomes philosophy" stonecirclereview.com/asterixis/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
"Camera Review," new in The Massachusetts Review. A night on a psych unit, told backward, from the needle to the ducks.
The Massachusetts Review@themassreview.bsky.social · 3mo agoCelebrating summer before the solstice with the launch of our new issue! Vol. 67, Issue 2 is here with poems from @timothyliupoet.bsky.social and Nikelle, prose by Caroline Crew, R.C. Blenis, Emilio Jurado Naón (translated by @kelsivanada.bsky.social) and many more! Get your copy today:
Psychological safety in clinical teaching is a cognitive prerequisite for clinical reasoning, not a supplement to it. Out today in Journal of Nursing Education: my integrative review on trauma-informed care in undergraduate clinical supervision. doi.org/10.3928/0148... #nursing #trauma #education
Operationalizing Trauma-Informed Care in Undergraduate Clinical Supervision: An Integrative Review | Journal of Nursing Education
Background: Traditional models of clinical nursing supervision have relied on hierarchical evaluation structures and corrective approaches to error remediation that may inadvertently impair student le...
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Firearms are now the No. 1 cause of death for children in Georgia. The state should be focused on making citizens safer than liberalizing firearms laws.
Georgia children deserve to grow up without fear of gun violence.
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Passing medications, the mind wanders. Or wonders. We know the mechanism. We do not know what the dose does out in a life, in rooms we will never enter. New poem in JAMA today, with a note by Rafael Campo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #poetry #MedicalHumanities
Mechanism of Action
And what if the whole thing works—the small white pilldissolving in the acid of his stomach,finding the blood, crossing into the brainwhere the receptor
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New poem, "Disaster North," up today at Pulse @pulsevoice.bsky.social. Grateful to Paul Gross and the team for the home. pulsevoices.org/poems/disast... #poetrysky #narrativemedicine
Disaster North - Pulse
Tuesday morning, Marcus holds his shoulders like a question mark. The intake nurse marks the calendar: Thursday—property destruction. She’s never wrong. This is what the body learns: to taste copper b...
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A woman on a subway platform picks her scalp until it bleeds. Everyone steps back. Then her phone rings, and in thirty seconds, everything we thought we knew about her changes. Check out my essay in West Trade Review exploring language, perception, and mental health.
West Trade Review@westtradereview.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe’re excited to present the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Nathan Erwin, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, @ewenglass.bsky.social, and @andhow.bsky.social among others; fiction by Janine A. Willis; CNF by @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social Read it here:
The mountain proposes nothing but itself, each hour argues otherwise. The valley holds its breath between the fact that will not speak and speech about it. #switzerland #photography #poetrysky
Barred owl, autumn branches. Contained, not captured. Freedom is functional repertoire.
Just got word: my first poem has been accepted by American Journal of Nursing. Grateful to share words from the bedside in a new way. #healthcare #narrative.
