Reading My Old Poems From the Pages of Psychiatric Times

Richard Berlin

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| January 1, 2006

Dr. Berlin is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Berlin recently established the Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Award at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the only medical student creative writing prize in the United States.

This pile of poems weighs more than a pound,

seven years squeezed into narrow columns

displayed against a background of pink or gray,

my thumbnail photo in the corner, a graphic

of a quill pen, the scientific articles just a quarter

inch away, poetic with their liquid L's of Luvox,

Lithobid, and Late Life Depression, their rhymes

Pages: 1 2 3 4

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