Crash:
A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery

Ann Bracken Ann Bracken is an activist with a pen. Her three books of poetry take on the topical issues of family secrets like depression and alcohol abuse, the challenges of teaching, and the stories of the men and women hidden away in our nation’s prisons. Ann’s use of poetic language has garnered her two Pushcart nominations, a featured spot on Best American Poetry, and appearances on Grace Cavalieri’s Poet and the Poem radio series. She also works as a contributing editor for the literary journal Little Patuxent Review and serves as a co-host for the Wilde Readings Literary Series. Ann also volunteers as a correspondent for the Justice Arts Coalition, exchanging letters with incarcerated people to foster their use of the arts. Her latest book, Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery, explores mother-daughter experiences of mismanaged care for depression and chronic pain, and tells the multi-generational story using primary source records, journal entries, and current medical research. You can find about more about Ann’s work at her website www.annbrackenauthor.com.

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Grace Cavalieri is Maryland’s tenth Poet Laureate. Her new book is The long Game, Selected and New (The Word Works.) She founded and produces “the Poet and the Poem” for public radio, now from the Library of Congress, celebrating 45 years on-air. This series of several hundred poets was shot to the moon in the Lunar Codex in 2022 as the first podcast series on the moon. Among other awards she holds the CPB Silver Medal. She is an Academy of American Poets Fellow.