Michael Salcman is a poet, physician and art historian.  He was chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and president of the Contemporary Museum. Born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, a child of the Holocaust and polio survivor, his poems appear in Arts & Letters, Barrow Street, Harvard Review, Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, New Letters, Notre Dame Review & Smartish Pace. Books include The Clock Made of Confetti (nominated for The Poets Prize), The Enemy of Good is Better, Poetry in Medicine, his anthology of classic and contemporary poems on doctors, patients, illness & healing, A Prague Spring, Before & After, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize, and Shades & Graces, inaugural winner of The Daniel Hoffman Legacy Book Prize. Necessary Speech: New & Selected Poems was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2022.