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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · 9d

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.

For more information, see
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Tendon Magazine Submission Manager

Tendon is the literary and visual arts journal published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine. Our masthead can be found here, and our most recent issue can be found he...

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · 9d

happy to have you on the team @caitlinannette.bsky.social!

Caitlin Annette Johnson @caitlinannette.bsky.social · 9d

Calling all FICTION baddies! I'm super psyched to tell you all that I am the new Fiction Editor for @tendonmag.bsky.social and I want to see YOU ALL in our subs for Issue 8! Share this widely! Tell your friends!

Submit---> tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

A light blue, hand-drawn illustration of a gently open hand against a textured white background. Text in blue script and sans-serif font reads: "tendon," "issue 08," "care," "call for submissions," and "deadline nov 1st."

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · Aug 14

For those interested, cool things in the works ahead and only two more days to apply!

Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · Jul 27

Come work with us!

Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.

hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/

Tendon Magazine: We're Recruiting

Editors, Readers, Interns
Volunteer, remote compatible, 1-5 hours/week

Deadline August 15, 2025

Questions? Don't hesitate to reach out to tendonmag@gmail.com

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · Jul 27

Come work with us!

Tendon is currently looking for a Fiction editor, a media and event intern, and readers for Fiction, Poetry, and Visual Art.

hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/join-tendon/

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 5

Read all of Elizabeth Koch's pithy meditation on balancing the work of mothering with the work of doctoring in our latest issue on Rest, out now:

hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Pre-call, Elizabeth Koch

The doctor who is a mother knows that she is one of the lucky ones. On most nights, except the one or two or three a week when she is on call, she is able to frown at the canvas bag of produce that she picked up from the CSA she’d signed them up for, conjure up a recipe that both her husband and children will eat, and fill the small house with steam and sizzle and the ticking of the oven warming itself. She is able, on most nights, to squint into her children’s crocodile mouths and scrub their little molars with an electric brush, careful not to mix up their separate toothpastes. Then she is able to read to them, alternating nights in each one’s bed, Jane Eyre for her precocious third grader, and, for her five-year-old, the one about the boy and his hunting hounds that always makes her cry.

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 4

Oh no... if you're using letterhead it might help to replace it with a smaller logo. Doing that bought be an extra couple of lines, I think.

Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 4

Read more about Dyne's work in our new issue here: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Issue 7: Rest – Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 4

"A Hangang Sunday Afternoon" by artist Dyne Kim, riffing on the French Impressionist Georges Seurat

A painting of people gathered by the bank of the Han River, painted in the style of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 4

No, and it was actually recommended to me to alter the default margins as well down to a trimmer 1" uniform

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 4

"Every twelve hours, our lives hung together, lines entangled (antibiotics, chemo, antibiotics), as we invited illness to sit among us, drip feed, slowly walk away."

From Karin Eli's poem Maypole, hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

Maypole – Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine

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Jess Leigh @itsjessandart.bsky.social · May 2

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · May 2

Humanity only survives if it matches every advancement in technology with a deepening of the soul. Without clarity about ethics, without sensitivity to truth and beauty, we will quickly lose ourselves in a heartless hellscape of digital minds.

Teach the humanities and the arts.

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · May 1

I'm so proud of this new issue we put together, and positively chuffed that I finally managed to Trojan horse my favorite bit of Mencius into a piece weaving clinical, ethnographic, and historical reflections I wrote specifically for it. I hope it offers some fun and fruitful food for thought.

Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 1

Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going.

In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

A woman melts into a bed, daily objects floating around her, and a blue forest of vines lurking in the background

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Adrienne P. @adrianaina.bsky.social · May 1

Happy to have this essay,"On Fatigue," published at @tendonmag.bsky.social @jhu.edu #chronicillness #writing #medicalhumanities #narrativemedicine #Rilke #fatigue hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · May 1

Rest is rarely just rest. It’s a desire, a demand, a question of who gets to pause—and who must keep going.

In honor of May Day, an international workers holiday, we're proud to launch our 7th issue, on Rest: hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magaz...

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brain @littlebluecouch.bsky.social · Apr 19

you know those family portraits where everyone wears denim

Levinia Fontana, Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children. a noblewoman poses with five children and a dog. they all have ruffled collars and ostentatious, intricately patterned clothing.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is just to say

I have fucked with
the trolls
that were in
my mentions

and which
I was probably
not
supposed to feed

Forgive me
they were entertaining
so simple
and so mad

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Feb 1

Open
my soul to the vast
dark places. Say to me, say again,
nothing is taken, only given.

-Ursula K. Le Guin, January Night Prayer

Properly elegiac, and the penultimate poem in her collection, “Finding My Elegy.” Le Guin passed away seven years ago, in January.
#everynightapoem

Bellchimes jangle, freakish wind
whistles icy out of desert lands
over the mountains. Janus, Lord
of winter and beginnings, riven
and shaken, with two faces,
watcher at the gates of winds and cities,
god of the wakeful:
keep me from coldhanded envy
and petty anger. Open
my soul to the vast
dark places. Say to me, say again,
nothing is taken. only given

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jan 24

"But also, as a scholar, there’s this long lineage of Black women using form that feels like a necessary disruption of a canon; a subversion of what form used to be." This time last year, we published Ashia Ajani's interview with @taylorbyas.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/3u4MRxN

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Tendon Magazine @tendonmag.bsky.social · Jan 22

"Oh no, good fortune. I can’t take your bribe / My world is not what these walls circumscribe //
Just hear the gunfire! Death is roaring, reaving / Silent night, how could you keep my heart from heaving?"

- Wen Yiduo, translated by A.Z. Foreman

A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior @azforeman.bsky.social · Jan 21

Three of my translations from one of the greatest poets of Republican China just went live on Asymptote.

Translation Tuesday: Three Poems by Wen Yiduo - Asymptote Blog

Just hear the gunfire! Death is roaring, reaving. / Silent night, how could you keep my heart from heaving?

www.asymptotejournal.com

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jan 25

And check put the lower left and upper right corners. These are personal items from the sitter, a friend from her community. And audio of interviews played near the piece.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jan 25

Propeta, 2021
Gisela McDaniel

"McDaniel's work engages processes of healing for “womxn” and nonbinary people of color. Her mixed-media assemblages are created using oil paints and donated objects from her sitters, which bring a palpable physicality and a tactile materiality to her portraits."

Tweet of lavishly colorful painting shows a Black woman, the artist's
friend, wearing a pink patterned dress, sitting on a yellow divan,
surrounded by tropical plants and a yellow sky. Tweet text says
"Propeta", 2021
Oil on panel, found object, shel, resin, flower
Gisela McDaniel

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Jan 20

You take a deep breath and then you do the work. What else is there?

Marge Piercy:

To Be of Use
by Marge Piercy
The people I love best jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls.
Ilove people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.
I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

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lydia | thoughtful wanders studio | experimental art & play @thoughtfulwanders.bsky.social · Jan 7

For landscape painting practice yesterday, I painted Qingtiangang 擎天崗 which I finally made it to the other day. It is a popular chill hike in Yangmingshan here in Taipei because you get grassy plains (which means views) and also lots of wild water buffalo around!

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Sarah Roth @sarahroth.bsky.social · Nov 27

Tendon (@tendonmag.bsky.social) is extending our submission deadline to 12/20! You can submit your work on “rest” here:

tendonmag.submittable.com/submit

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · Nov 29

I hope this letter finds you, in your changes.

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