Books & things
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Poetry or go to Company store page for purchases
At High Altitude: Blessing
31 poems of 31 words
Pudding house press, 2011 Barnwood Press, 2003
Second place prize Barnwood Press selection for 2003
Sunken garden Poetry Competition
Taking the History making
nightshade press, 1999 Talent house press, 1999
“th(is) poet’s voice is one you can trust winner, talent house award
Implicitly” for 1999
. . . John Stone
“the mysteries of the body are deftly and precisely
awakened in (these) poems of clarity”
. . . jane hirshfield
Spring’s Boy
crescent publications, 1976
Slow waking
at Jenner-by-the-sea
radiolarian press, 1995
poetry as harvey ellis
The color of desire sleep not sleep
Petaluma river press, 2011 wolf ridge press, 2008
“harvey ellis invents miniature explosions “Wow! Lovely. Stark. Rich. Strange.
that open slowly, sublimely, in the periphery of These poems spy out the minds quickest turns
consciousness.” and flights and falls.”
. . . ronald palmer . . . Li-young lee
Prose
The Orange wire problem Bedside Manners
U. Iowa Press, 2010 Random house-harmony books, 2005
“With this new book, watts “Watts’ sympathy for both physicians and
takes his place among the most eloquent their patients subtly changes our understanding
of modern physician writers.” of what it means to heal and be healed.”
. . . rachel naomi remen . . . Francine Prose, O Magazine
“you’ll wish your doctor were half as attentive.”
. . . Newsweek
Orange Wire Trailer: :http://youtu.be/A4d4ck09s-o
Bedside Manners Trailer: http://youtu.be/DuapyKJDtTI
AnthologIES
The healing art of writing POEMS FOR THE TIME CAPSULE
university of california press, 2011 WOLF RIDGE PRESS, 2013
Baranow, Dolan, & watts
Essays, poems, and prose on illness and healing POEMS THAT KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF
Poetry and jazz
powerful Seeds, 2000 long distance, 2011
markison, baranow and watts ellis, casey and watts
Video Documentary
healing words: poetry and medicine
aired nationally on pbs,
summer 2008
joan baranow, victoria chaban and david watts, producers
Essays
”The healing art of writing” “The Heart of Poetry”
The Examined life, vol 1, no 1, 2011 San Francisco medicine, february, 2011
http://theexaminedlifejournal.com
“What Literature can do for medicine” “Cure for the Common COld”
http://theexaminedlifejournal.com NEJM, Vol 367, No. 13. September 27, 2012
p. 1184
“My Ellis Experiment: Writing “The Moral story: narrative
two sides of consciousness” as a classroom for ethics”
Translations
Translation of the well-known Persian poet in exile, Jonaghir Sedeghatfar, currently underway
