Welcome! I’m Deborah Bayer, writer and workshop facilitator.
I am (mostly) retired from the practice of Infectious Disease and Palliative Care. I write poems and personal essays, and I’m working on a memoir about the need for emotional support in the workplace.
I facilitate writing groups via Zoom. These groups blend the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) methodology with the Narrative Medicine workshop format.
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A Rope Made of Bandages
Poems by Deborah Bayer
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The supportive approach of the AWA method lends itself to healing from all kinds of trauma, including the trauma of medical training.
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Blog Archive
I Have Many Sisters
Ich habe viele Brüder in Sutanen im Süden, wo in Klöstern Lorbeer steht. -Rainer Maria Rilke I see a stand of tall trees here, limbs all reaching up until their leaflessness entwines, a pattern on an argyle sweater. These are not my sisters, the scrub pines and...
Smoke Trees and Mountain Ash
Smoke Trees and Mountain Ash Because I never learned the names of flowering trees, they all seem ornamental, with tiny hard fruit that softens with the frost. Then the birds can eat. Seeds scatter, form new plants bred to please the eye, not for juice or...
A Brief History of My Life as a Coyote
A Brief History of My Life as a Coyote I’m not cóyotl, the Aztec trickster, the death decliner who succeeds through failure and holds the way open between the worlds. I come from that original deceiver, Prometheus the clever, who got caught. He paid with pain...