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Michael Salcman
Michael Salcman (born 1946) is an American poet and physician who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His poetical work is infused and vivified by his medical profession, his love of and expertise in contemporary art, and by the fact that his parents were Holocaust survivors. His work is characterized by a lushness of diction, a strong moral focus, and a sense of playful imagery.
== Biography ==
The son of Holocaust survivors, he was born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, and came to the United States in 1949. A graduate of the Combined Program in Liberal Arts and Medical Education at Boston University (B.A. and M.D, both 1969), he trained in neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health and in neurological surgery at Columbia University. He was chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland from 1984 through 1991.〔"Not Quite A Miracle", Jon Franklin & Alan Doelp, Doubleday, 1983〕 He is the author of many medical and scientific papers. His art reviews and essays on the arts and sciences and the visual arts and the brain have appeared in ''Urbanite Magazine'', ''Neurosurgery,'' ''Creative Non-Fiction'' and on-line sites such as www.PEEKreview.net and www.artbrain.org. He has also taught courses on the History of Contemporary Art at Roland Park Country School, the Contemporary Museum, and Towson University, and given seminars on the brain's visual system and art at the Cooper Union in New York and at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.〔Mary McCauley, Baltimore Sun, January 27, 2007〕 His course on How The Brain Works appears on The Knowledge Network of the New York Times.
Salcman's earliest published poems date from 1963. His poems have been widely published in such journals as the Alaska Quarterly Review, Hopkins Review, Notre Dame Review, New Letters, Ontario Review, Harvard Review, Raritan, and New York Quarterly. His poems have been heard on NPR's ''All Things Considered'' and in ''Euphoria'' an award-winning documentary on the brain and creativity. They have been nominated six times for a Pushcart Prize, once for a Best of The Web Award, and have appeared on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Salcman is the author of two poetry collections, ''The Clock Made of Confetti'' (Orchises Press, Washington, D.C., 2007), nominated for The Poets Prize and a Finalist for the Towson University Prize in Literature, and "The Enemy of Good Is Better" (Orchises, 2011), as well as four chapbooks, most recently, ''Stones in Our Pockets'' (Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007). His poems have appeared in an award-winning film by Lee Boot on the brain and creativity, Euphoria. Most recently, Baltimore composer Lorraine Whittlesey has set Salcman's poems to music (2012).
His poetry, though lyrical, is dense with information about cultural history, art, metaphysics, and brain theory. His major themes and subject matter is family history and the Holocaust, experiences with patients, and his love of sailing and for the Chesapeake Bay. His work is characterized by careful attention to rhythm and internal music.
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