Messenger

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares Mary Oliver's poem "Messenger." Her book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 24 years in the Psychiatric Times™ “Poetry of the Times” column. He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.