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R.C. Blenis

@hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social
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Poet, nurse, essayist. Paying attention for a living. Writing it down for free. rcblenis.com

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Michelle DeCoux Hampton @decouxhampton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The relational work that we do as nurses is really the most important work that we do…but it’s also sometimes the hardest work to measure – and when it’s hard to measure, it’s hard to value – and hard to recognize...
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's an honor to be featured in the JAPNA author spotlight!
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What are we helping a patient do when we ask, “Can you tell me more?” My new JAPNA paper proposes that therapeutic communication can scaffold how people retrieve and organize personal memories. "Read the paper" (doi.org/10.1177/1078...) #PsychSky #AcademicSky
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some wonderful news: “Incantations” has won the 2026 Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, selected by Ross Gay. I’m honored and grateful that the essay found this home. Forthcoming Winter 2026–27.
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A 9-year-old is referred for anxiety and school refusal. Medication and CBT help, but the school resistance persists, worst on days with a lot of writing. Two years later, someone asks the child to write a sentence. The handwriting is illegible. 🧪
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
POEM 349: "Asterixis" by R.C. Blenis (@hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social) "The liver thinks yellow thoughts. Ask anyone in hepatic failure— blood becomes philosophy" stonecirclereview.com/asterixis/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Camera Review," new in The Massachusetts Review. A night on a psych unit, told backward, from the needle to the ducks.
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Psychological safety in clinical teaching is a cognitive prerequisite for clinical reasoning, not a supplement to it. Out today in Journal of Nursing Education: my integrative review on trauma-informed care in undergraduate clinical supervision. doi.org/10.3928/0148... #nursing #trauma #education
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Operationalizing Trauma-Informed Care in Undergraduate Clinical Supervision: An Integrative Review | Journal of Nursing Education
Background: Traditional models of clinical nursing supervision have relied on hierarchical evaluation structures and corrective approaches to error remediation that may inadvertently impair student le...
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc.com · 25/04/2026
Firearms are now the No. 1 cause of death for children in Georgia. The state should be focused on making citizens safer than liberalizing firearms laws.
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Georgia children deserve to grow up without fear of gun violence.
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Passing medications, the mind wanders. Or wonders. We know the mechanism. We do not know what the dose does out in a life, in rooms we will never enter. New poem in JAMA today, with a note by Rafael Campo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #poetry #MedicalHumanities
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Mechanism of Action
And what if the whole thing works—the small white pilldissolving in the acid of his stomach,finding the blood, crossing into the brainwhere the receptor
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New poem, "Disaster North," up today at Pulse @pulsevoice.bsky.social. Grateful to Paul Gross and the team for the home. pulsevoices.org/poems/disast... #poetrysky #narrativemedicine
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Disaster North - Pulse
Tuesday morning, Marcus holds his shoulders like a question mark. The intake nurse marks the calendar: Thursday—property destruction. She’s never wrong. This is what the body learns: to taste copper b...
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A woman on a subway platform picks her scalp until it bleeds. Everyone steps back. Then her phone rings, and in thirty seconds, everything we thought we knew about her changes. Check out my essay in West Trade Review exploring language, perception, and mental health.
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
the boat tilts water finds another seam #photography #haiku #sunset #mississippi
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Leaves in style. #smokymountains #fallcolors #leavenotrace #photography
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Neighbors. #japan #photography
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The mountain proposes nothing but itself, each hour argues otherwise. The valley holds its breath between the fact that will not speak and speech about it. #switzerland #photography #poetrysky
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The glacier flows. The path climbs. Which is pilgrimage? #photography #poetrycommunity #momentofzen
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Prescribed path. Chosen trajectory.
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Barred owl, autumn branches. Contained, not captured. Freedom is functional repertoire.
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R.C. Blenis @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Just got word: my first poem has been accepted by American Journal of Nursing. Grateful to share words from the bedside in a new way. #healthcare #narrative.
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