Award-winning poet and English professor Marianne Boruch will keynote the 2018 Medical Humanities Collective next month with a reading of her eighth collection's title poem, "Cadaver, Speak,” 7:30 p.m. March 22 in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall.  

Students in the Indiana University School of Medicine-West Lafayette, along with poets in Purdue's Creative Writing MFA program will aid Boruch in the reading of her long poem. Also on stage will be choreographers and dancers led by Holly Jaycox from the Division of Dance in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. To end the night, Boruch and all performers will hold a Q&A with the audience.

In addition, a gallery show, "From the Dissection Lab," runs March 19-23 in Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts, featuring work by Department of Art & Design faculty members and students in response to the title poem and other pieces in "Cadaver, Speak." Boruch's drawings and watercolors also will be included. The reception is from 4:30-6:30 March 20, and includes a brief gallery talk by Boruch at 5 p.m.

All events are free and open to the public. The program is sponsored by the Medical Humanities program in the College of Liberal Arts, which is an outgrowth of the Cancer Culture and Community Colloquium, a partnership between the College of Liberal Arts and Discovery Park.