Don’t miss this multimedia poetry reading and book signing event with Frederick Foote, author of Medic Against Bomb: A Doctor’s Poetry of War. A portion of the proceeds from Foote’s books sold that day will benefit the $4 million Green Road healing garden initiative at Walter Reed scheduled to launch this Spring.

Winner of the Grayson Books Poetry Prize (out of 180 entries) and touted as “one of the best available sources on modern war experience,” Medic Against Bomb describes the experiences of the wounded of the Iraq/Afghan Wars (both American and foreign Muslim patients) and the inspiring efforts of U.S. military medics to heal the ravages of war.

A retired U.S. Navy neurologist and the military’s foremost expert on holistic medicine, Foote has created holistic medicine programs (including arts and writing programs) for our nation’s Wounded Warriors and veterans during the past 15 years, working closely with the Institute for Integrative Health in Baltimore.

In developing such programs as the Walter Reed Healing Arts Program and the Warrior Poetry Project, Foote learned that making art and music, and engaging with nature, is often more effective for healing than medications or surgery, particularly for patients with brain injury or PTSD.