The New Colossus

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, a descendant of Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the United States from Portugal around the time of the American Revolution.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 24 years in Psychiatric Times™ the “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.