Psychoanalyst and poet, Dr. Alice Jones will read from her memoir, Cadence of Vanishing, weaving together love, loss, and the profound work of witnessing human trauma. With clinical precision and a poet’s heart, Jones explores the delicate choreography between presence and absence that defines human connection.
The memoir follows Jones through four transformative years as she accompanies patients through their deepest wounds while navigating her own encounters with mortality. Jones captures the cadence of vanishing that marks every life — how we arrive, love, and leave. She reveals how deep listening becomes its own form of love, and how even in loss, we discover what endures.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alice Jones is a physician, psychoanalyst, open water swimmer, and the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Verse, and Best American Poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the NEA, as well as other literary prizes.
Thomas Ogden, author of What Alive Means: Psychoanalytic Explorations, says about her:
“Alice Jones’s Cadence of Vanishing is a meditative memoir in the form of diary entries in which many of the passages have the delicate feel of poetry. This is a penetrating exploration of the inner life of a poet through perceptive observations of the ordinary, reminiscent of Lydia Davis. It is an experience to be savored”.
Please join us for this engaging presentation!
Frances V. Dillon, MSW and Eric Dammann, PhD, are Co-Directors, Artist Study Group