The countdown begins 🗓️ We’re abuzz with excitement for Tendon’s new issue. Stay tuned for Issue 08: Care, coming February 2026! 🌟

Contributor Spotlight: Eleanore Tisch! Tisch is a writer, educator, and artist from Chicago. She has lived all across the Midwest, from the foothills of the Rockies to the grassland plains of Iowa to the urban sprawl of Chicago itself. See her work at eleanoretisch.com.

Renée Nicole Good was a poet. We are horrified by the cruelty of her murder and ICE’s barring of a nearby physician to render aid. In times like these, we need art more than ever. source: poets.org.

"Is When" is a piece by Benjamin Marrow, a poet from Las Cruces, New Mexico. With anaphora serving as the gentle guide, this poem brings the reader down a quiet road, one where "the milk of stars will flood every empty arroyo". Read the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Contributor Spotlight: Amelia Dutch Player! Amelia is a dramatic writer based in Savannah, Georgia. She is originally from the small Rocky Mountain town of Durango, CO, and has two dogs named Whiskey and Mr. Fred Rogers. Check out her works and updates on YouTube and Instagram at @amelia_dutch.

This week's Editorial Staff Spotlight features our new Editorial Intern: Zephyr Hameem. Zephyr is a third year medical student at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Outside of studying, Zephyr enjoys spending time with her family, writing poetry, and being out in nature.

Our featured piece for the week is "Sensory Deprivation" by Genevieve Creedon. A scholar, poet, and essayist, Creedon explores relational meaning-making with human, animal, and environmental others through her writing. Read the full poem here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Contributor Spotlight: Sophia Zhao! Hailing from Delaware, Sophia is a poet and visual artist whose work has been featured in JAMA, Palliative and Supportive Care, Cordite Poetry Review, and The Adroit Journal, among others. Check out her portfolio here: sophiajzhao.com

Meet one of our Nonfiction Readers: Maggie Hart! Maggie is a Pushcart Prize nominee and her works have been featured in Narratively, The Audacity, The Blood Project, Mud Season Review, December, and elsewhere. Outside of school, she enjoys hiking, running, and traveling 🌎

This week's featured piece is "The Harpy and the Featherbed" by Lamb. Her work blurs the boundaries between the body and the natural world, and centers on themes of chronic illness, transformation, and mortality. Check out the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

This week's contributor feature is Lynn Thayer! Lynn is a multidisciplinary artist from Salida, CO. She's a graduate of Lighthouse’s Poetry Collective and was accepted to a residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2026. Check out her works at www.lynnthayer.com

This week's featured piece is "(un) rest" by K.F. Mittendorf. Mittendorf is a multiply-disabled academic scientist, advocate, and full-time patient for the last decade whose work can be found at katemittendorf.com. See their full piece in Issue 07: Rest!

This week's featured piece is "My Father's Pony" by Amelia Player. Her work explores intensive depths of feeling and strives to create an insightful reflection of our world. Check out the full piece here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Starting off our Editorial Staff Spotlight series with our new Fiction Editor, Caitlin Annette Johnson! Johnson's writing has appeared in NonBinary Review, Anodyne, Dunes Review, and others. We’re so excited to have them on the Tendon team!

Our featured piece this week is "The way I lie" by Alexandra Bergmann, appearing in Tendon Issue 07: Rest. Bergmann is a writer, scientist, and educator from the San Fransisco Bay Area. Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Thank you to all who submitted for Issue 08 - we're excited to share it soon! In the meantime, let's take a trip down memory lane to past issues. Our featured piece is “Transience” by Clement Abayomi, appearing in Tendon Issue 07: Rest. Read more here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Opportunities to submit work for our next issue on the politics and poetics of "Care" are drawing to a close. We look forward to receiving your poetry, art, non-fiction or fiction submissions by 11.1! tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

Looking for something to do on the spookiest day of the year? @cncsi.bsky.social is running our annual online Halloween workshop tomorrow with the theme of ‘Gothic Afterlives’ — looking at media receptions of c19 gothic themes in tv, film, video games, & radio 👻 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Opportunities to submit work for our next issue on the politics and poetics of "Care" are drawing to a close. We look forward to receiving your poetry, art, non-fiction or fiction submissions by 11.1! tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

Tendon is currently soliciting art, poetry, and prose (fiction an non-fiction) on the theme of care. Submit a piece by 10/19 and we'll waive the submission fee! tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025 Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care. For more information, see tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

happy to have you on the team @caitlinannette.bsky.social!

For those interested, cool things in the works ahead and only two more days to apply!

Come work with us! Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art. hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/

Read all of Elizabeth Koch's pithy meditation on balancing the work of mothering with the work of doctoring in our latest issue on Rest, out now: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

"A Hangang Sunday Afternoon" by artist Dyne Kim, riffing on the French Impressionist Georges Seurat

"Every twelve hours, our lives hung together, lines entangled (antibiotics, chemo, antibiotics), as we invited illness to sit among us, drip feed, slowly walk away." From Karin Eli's poem Maypole, hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Humanity only survives if it matches every advancement in technology with a deepening of the soul. Without clarity about ethics, without sensitivity to truth and beauty, we will quickly lose ourselves in a heartless hellscape of digital minds. Teach the humanities and the arts.

I'm so proud of this new issue we put together, and positively chuffed that I finally managed to Trojan horse my favorite bit of Mencius into a piece weaving clinical, ethnographic, and historical reflections I wrote specifically for it. I hope it offers some fun and fruitful food for thought.

Happy to have this essay,"On Fatigue," published at @tendonmag.bsky.social @jhu.edu #chronicillness #writing #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #Rilke #fatigue hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going. In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

you know those family portraits where everyone wears denim

This is just to say I have fucked with the trolls that were in my mentions and which I was probably not supposed to feed Forgive me they were entertaining so simple and so mad

Open my soul to the vast dark places. Say to me, say again, nothing is taken, only given. -Ursula K. Le Guin, January Night Prayer Properly elegiac, and the penultimate poem in her collection, “Finding My Elegy.” Le Guin passed away seven years ago, in January. #everynightapoem

"But also, as a scholar, there’s this long lineage of Black women using form that feels like a necessary disruption of a canon; a subversion of what form used to be." This time last year, we published Ashia Ajani's interview with @taylorbyas.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/3u4MRxN

"Oh no, good fortune. I can’t take your bribe / My world is not what these walls circumscribe // Just hear the gunfire! Death is roaring, reaving / Silent night, how could you keep my heart from heaving?" - Wen Yiduo, translated by A.Z. Foreman

And check put the lower left and upper right corners. These are personal items from the sitter, a friend from her community. And audio of interviews played near the piece. bsky.app/profile/prop...

You take a deep breath and then you do the work. What else is there? Marge Piercy:

For landscape painting practice yesterday, I painted Qingtiangang 擎天崗 which I finally made it to the other day. It is a popular chill hike in Yangmingshan here in Taipei because you get grassy plains (which means views) and also lots of wild water buffalo around!

Tendon (@tendonmag.bsky.social) is extending our submission deadline to 12/20! You can submit your work on “rest” here: tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

I hope this letter finds you, in your changes.

Sorry, but if you are trying to use GenAI to create comics for #GraphicMedicine purposes, you have missed the entire point so badly that I'm not sure you even know what you are talking about.

I don’t have a title for this one yet. It’s about a therapy session I had with an Australian Jungian therapist in Thailand, who liked to hypnotize me and tell me stories. 30” x 40” Oil on canvas #oilpainting #portrait #selfie #selfportrait #Therapy #Jung #Babel

When Kafka was dying and unable to speak, he wrote little notes for his doctors and friends who visited him. Here are seven of them.

Writers, poets, and artists: we're closing in on the final days to submit work on the theme of "Rest." Call for submissions closes on 2024.11.20 at 11:59pm EST.

How do you determine your line breaks / lengths? So much of craft is instinctual for me.

Writers, poets, and artists: we're closing in on the final days to submit work on the theme of "Rest." Call for submissions closes on 2024.11.20 at 11:59pm EST.

me: having a really hard time figuring out what to remove from this poem the poem: