Richard Waring’s poems have appeared in Ars Medica, Comstock Review, Chest, Sanctuary, Collateral, Contact II, Dark Horse, the American Journal of Nursing, Mothering, Inward Springs, ParentSource, Journal of the American Medical Association, and other publications. He has been anthologized in The Pocket Poetry Parenting Guide, Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains, What the Poem Knows, and The Unitarian Universalist Poets: A Contemporary American Survey. He has appeared on Phone-A-Poem, the cable TV show BookBeat, and Doug Holder’s Poet to Poet interview program. His first book of poetry, What Love Tells Me, was published by Word Poetry in 2016. His chapbook, Listening to Stones, was published in 1999 by Pudding House Publications. He hosts a monthly poetry reading, the PoemWorks series. Until recently, he was senior layout artist for the New England Journal of Medicine.
Paperback: 106 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (May 21, 2026)