Pharmacy students practice research skills in creating healthcare poems

Walt Whitman would be proud. Pharmacy students in Kristy Brittain's Intro to Pharmacy course sang the body electric on Thursday during the Poetry Project, in which students create poems with lines from movies, television literature, and song lyrics. (Lots of song lyrics. Maybe it's Bob Dylan who's proud).    

Above, Alec Jordan recites his poem "My Little Blue Life Saver" with lines from Phil Collins, Marvin Gaye, AJR, Luke Combs, Tai Verdes, and a healthy dose of Juice WRLD. He even threw in some vintage Rebecca Black! Who knows where the muse will take you?

The Poetry Project was the brainchild of clinical assistant professor Anthony DeClue ’16, who earned a master’s degree in English from Clemson and taught rhetoric there before coming to MUSC for his Pharm.D. The project combines humanities and health care in a way that helps students build a skill set they need for scientific research.

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