The Wednesday, January 31 Cross-Pollinations event will feature poets/writers Mic Jones and Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin. This event will explore the relationship between their poetry practice and their respective lived experiences of chronic illness/disability (Mic) and medical training (Rhiannon) when their writing does not explicitly focus on these experiences. Across this series, we have had the privilege of learning from/with poets whose writing intentionally addresses the themes of illness, health, disability, and care. But to kick off the 2024 season of Cross-Pollinations, we want to think about these themes in a less conventional way i.e. when one's poetry does not seem, at least on the surface, to address such themes. How does one's poetry—regardless of its topic/theme—inform one's experiences of illness, health, disability, and care? And how do such experiences inform one's poetry?