M. S. Marquart
disabled, mixed race Asian American poet writing about life with long covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (me/cfs)
Poems
PUBLISHED:
"Little Sparks of Love" in miniMAG (Issue 141: horus, pages 7-8, March 14, 2025)
Note that access to all miniMAG issues is free for 6 months, and then issues are archived for paid subscribers only, so this poem will be free to access & download from March 14 - September 14. From their website: "you could, like, buy a month and download them all, then cancel your sub before the second billing cycle ... i wouldn’t even be mad"
"Eau-de-Intimacy" in Micromance Magazine (March 11, 2025) (free to access)
From their website: "Micromance Magazine is a new kind of literary journal dedicated to a beautiful marriage between Romance and Flash Fiction"
"Love Letter to My ME/CFS, Long Covid Body" in FLARE Magazine (special Valentine's Day Issue, February 14, 2025) (free to access)
FLARE is a magazine for chronically ill and disabled writers
"Existence While Hoping for a Cure (#MillionsMissing)"
Published in Lombardi Voices (Volume 21, Winter 2024), pages 42-43. The preceding link is free to access, and this volume of Lombardi Voices can also be purchased for Kindle ($8) or in paperback ($10) on Amazon, with proceeds going to support the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program's Expressive Writing Program.
From their website: "The Georgetown Lombardi Arts & Humanities Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital promotes cura personalis, which means care for the whole person, for patients, family members, caregivers, medical staff, students, and community members."
Also posted on the #MEAction Pillow Writers website
"One Disabled Person to Another" (free to access); Link to download the screenreader edition
Published in Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts (Issue 90, January 2025)
First shared in the Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024)
"For Whom These Wonders?"
Shared in the Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective's zine Interdependence: Integral to Disability Justice (August 2024) (free to access)
The Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective is a group of disabled BIPOC and/or Queer poets
"My Local Life"
Shared in the Forget ME not Arts & Crafts Exhibit 2024, which was a fundraiser for ME/CFS research (May 2024; now defunct)
PHOTO ART:
"Another Kind of Medicine" in Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine (December 20, 2024)
To learn more about ME/CFS
For everyone:
#MEAction's resource What is ME?
#MEAction's podcast Chronically Complex
Pillow Writers growing resource of posts What Is ME Like?
The Bateman Horne Center's resource on ME/CFS
The Bateman Horne Center's support groups for those with ME/CFS and lunch & learns
For medical professionals and students (or anyone else):
Continuing education credits for internal medicine physicians and other clinicians via The Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Continuing education credits for healthcare professionals via the Bateman Horne Center
Continuing education credits for physicians via Michigan State Medical Society - module 1 and module 2
Continuing education credits for physical, occupational, and speech therapists via MedBridge
Flashcards for medical students from #MEAction via Anki