The Reader was co-sponsored and co-conceived by CavanKerry and LaurelBooks partner, The Arnold P.Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. Publisher Joan Cusack Handler and Gold Foundation President and CEO Sandra Gold observed that patients, while waiting to learn about their physical health, typically are provided only pop culture magazines-perhaps entertaining but without the solace and comfort that literature provides. The Waiting Room Reader was designed to address that need by bringing fine and accessible writing to "keep the patients company." Here are uplifting and inspiring poems that focus on life's gifts - everyday pleasures: love and family, food and home, work and play, dreams and the earth. This collection, originally offered only to hospitals and physicians' waiting rooms, was received with great success and is now available to a wider audience.

About the Author
JOAN CUSACK HANDLER is the author of two poetry collections, GlOrious, which debuted in 2003 and The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making, a verse memoir which was released in Fall, 2008. Recipient of 4 Pushcart nominations and The Sampler Award from The Boston Review, she is founder and publisher of CavanKerry Press Ltd.

Reviews
"The Waiting Room Reader brings poetry into those boring, anxiety-laden waiting rooms of laboratories, prenatal clinics, dental clinics, x-ray centers, all the anterooms of all the places we attend for medical procedures and results. Given the percentage of our lives we spend waiting in such places with CNN blaring, now there is the antidote of poetry - right there next to the two and three year old greasy - thumbed magazines." MOLLY PEACOCK"



Book Information
ISBN 9781933880136
Author Joan Cusack Handler
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint CavanKerry Press
Publisher CavanKerry Press