Richard M. Berlin

Poet

Lenox, MA

Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

I am a poet & physician with a practice in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. In addition to my poetry, I have established the Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Prize for medical students, nursing students and doctors in training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

The Country Doctor, Revisited (, 2010)

My Heart's First Steps (Adams Media, 2004)

This Side of Doctoring (Sage Press, 2003)

Holding True: An Anthology of Berkshire Poets (Mad River Press, 1999)

Books:

Secret Wounds (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2011)

Poets on Prozac (, 2009)

How JFK Killed My Father (Pearl Editions, 2003)

Chapbooks:

The Prophecy (, 2010)

Code Blue (Poetry Society of South Carolina, 1999)

Journals:

Flyway

Journal of the American Medical Association

Prizes won:

Pearl Poetry Prize
John Ciardi Poetry Prize

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Raised in:

New Jersey

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Last update: Sep 25, 2011