John Okrent

2021 Jeff Marks Poetry Prize Winner

December Magazine

The Doctor Poets of COVID

The Boston Globe

What Do We Want from Poetry in Times of Crisis

The New Yorker, 2020  

A Tacoma Doctor Treats Patients and Writes Poems about Coronavirus

Seattle Times, 2020

John Okrent (A04) on Medicine, Poetry, and Coronavirus

St Johns College, 2020

This Tacoma Doctor Marks His Days in PPE and Poetry

KUOW, 2020

Chekhov said that one must feel compassion down to his fingertips, a virtue John Okrent shares with that writer, as well as his vocation, and writing that is blindingly beautiful.

--John Skoyles