New Poems

Congratulations to Paula Tatarunis, MD, winner of the 2000 Annals Poetry Prize. Dr. Tatarunis's poem was published in the 18 April 2000 issue of Annals (vol. 132, no. 8) and is reprinted here.

Everywhere new poems are being born.

The poem nursery is full of them, and still, down the hall,

the cries of travail are unceasing. And everywhere,

absolutely everywhere poets are beaming.

They shoulder each other aside at the nursery window,

and drown each other out with their strident …