Publications by Mary Oak
Book
“Heart’s Oratorio: One Woman’s Journey through Love, Death and Modern Medicine” North Carolina: Goldenstone Press, 2013
Essays and Poetry
“Rainbow Woman” Harmony Magazine, University of Arizona, 2020
“Labor of Love” Essay, Hektoen: A Journal of Medical Humanities, 5.14.19 https://hekint.org/2019/05/14/labor-of-love/
“Beloved Star Mothers”, Poem, Minding Nature, Print: Winter, 2019, Vol.12, #1, and online:
“Weight” in Reader’s Write, Flash Nonfiction, The Sun, March, 2019, Issue 519
“Love Compounded” Poem, Intima: A Journal for Narrative Medicine, Spring 2016
“Holding Space for Creativity" Essay, Courageous Creativity, May 2015 "Creative Teaching" Issue.
“Freeing the Waters” Essay, Lilipoh Journal, Issue 75, Volume 19, Spring 2014
“Remarrying at Midlife” Essay, Anthology “Remarriage in Midlife: 10 Things Women Over 50 Should Think About Before Saying I Do a Second—or Third—Time!” Edited by Catherine Rain, forthcoming.
“Assaying a Grammar of Dreams” Essay, Arabesques Journal, for future publication
“Sternal Encounter” in The Examined Life: a Literary Journal of the University of Iowa Carver School of Medicine, Volume 2, #2, Spring 2013.
“Remodel” in Anesthesiology Journal, July 2012.
“His Heartbeat” in Heartscapes: True Stories of Remembered Love, Plainfield, Vermont: Spruce Mountain Press, 2012
“Mother Goddess” in Writing it Real, (Second place winner in essay contest) June, 4, 2009
“Wounding Vision” in Viridescent Sea, Issue 1, Winter 2005
“Hera Chera” Essay, Banyan Review, Spring 2003
“Of Greed and Measure” Story, Spirit of Trees Website
“Awakening Ecological Awareness in Children through Story” Essay, Nature In Legend and Story Newsletter, Volume 1, No. 3-4, Fall 2002/Winter 2004 (Chicago)
“For Imbolc” Poem, Spindleweed: Weaving Life with Earth, Issue 8, Spring 1999 (Seattle)
“Creating Tree Ceremonies” Article; “The First Tree” Story, Caduceus Journal, Issue 35, Spring 1997 (Leamington Spa, UK)
“Story –Vessels for the Creative” Essay, Caduceus Journal, Issue 31, Spring, 1996 (Leamington Spa, UK)
Various Book Reviews: Caduceus Journal U.K. Issues 32–55
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Multi-Media
“We Wear Read” (Testimony for the Removal of the Lower Snake River Dams) used in soundtrack for Sea Change Within Us dance performance by Karin Stevens Dance Company, May 11-12, 2019, The Base, Seattle.
Work in Progress
Book featuring a Mythopoetics of Medicine: “Finding the Flower of Healing: Facing Medical Tribulations with Sacred Imagination” (working title).