I Knew a Woman

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares Theodore Roethke's poem, "I Knew a Woman." Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 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 Freud on My Couch.