Devin Alaric Mikles, MD, FACP is a retired internal and integrative medicine physician. He has been a student of multiple systems of healing since 1969. His primary vision and goal through the last 30 years has been to assist in the development of new paradigms of healing for our planet. He was raised in a military family and his father served during 4 wars. As a dependent of a career army sergeant, Devin lived in post WWII Japan , and in Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He really became acutely aware of the facts of wars as a dependent of a military serviceman during the Vietnam war. Much of his poetry related to that is from his direct experience of his father’s participation during that time, and the results of war trauma on his father and many other American friends in the post Vietnam era. He has been writing poetry, singing and playing music since he was in grade school and has published his poems in print journals and online including on the now archived website: poets against war. He has been an active member of the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization, Physicians for Social Responsibility since the 1980’s.
