Joel Savishinsky

Joel Savishinsky is an anthropologist, gerontologist, poet and writer, whose career has included work in western Turkey, the Canadian North, a working-class London borough, villages in South India and the Bahamas, and American nursing homes and retirement communities. His books include The Trail of the Hare: Life and Stress in An Arctic Community (Gordon and Breach, 1974; revised edition 1994), Dementia Sufferers and Their Caregivers in The London Borough of Islington (Polytechnic of North London Press, 1990), The Ends of Time: Life and Work in A Nursing Home (Bergin and Garvey, 1991), and Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America (Cornell University Press, 2001). The latter two volumes each won the Richard Kalish Award for Innovative Publishing, the book-of-the-year prize given by the Gerontological Society of America. His poetry, short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Writers Review, The Avocet, Beyond Words, Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, Blue Collar Review, Caesura, Cirque, The Examined Life Journal, The Hemlock Review, The New Verse News, The Opiate, Passager, Poetry Quarterly, Pontoon Poetry, Soul-Lit, and Willawaw. His collections Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts: Poems on Aging (2023), and Bones Beneath the Plow: Poems on Injustice (2027) have been published by The Poetry Box. Three times a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net nominee, he is the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Museums of Canada, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 2008, he has been the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus in the Social Sciences at Ithaca College. [email protected];  https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/savishin