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: 
NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Sep 25, 2011