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Owls
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- Liza Katz Duncan, author of Given, has received notable literary awards and her work is widely published.
- Richard Berlin, MD, has written a monthly poem for Psychiatric Times for 26 years, focusing on his medical experiences.
"I imagine an ossuary blooming in my gut, a stone well of tiny bones, ancestors tunneling through the cartilage, though of course I know this is impossible: ancestors are supposed to stay dead."
Any Good Poem
Richard Berlin, MD, shares the poem "Owls" by Liza Katz Duncan, who is the author of Given, which received the Autumn House Press Rising Writer Award and the Laurel Prize for Best International First Collection. Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, Poetry, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. A 2024-25 Climate Resiliency Fellow, she lives in New Jersey where she teaches multilingual learners.
Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 26 years in Psychiatric Times in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Tender Fences.
