I am a poet & physician with a practice in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. In addition to my poetry, I have established the Gerald F. Berlin Creative Writing Prize for medical students, nursing students and doctors in training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Publications and Prizes
Books:
Secret Wounds (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2011), How JFK Killed My Father (Pearl Editions, 2003)
Chapbooks:
Code Blue (Poetry Society of South Carolina, 1999)
Anthologies:
My Heart's First Steps (Adams Media, 2004), This Side of Doctoring (Sage Press, 2003), Holding True: An Anthology of Berkshire Poets (Mad River Press, 1999)
Journals:
Flyway, Journal of the American Medical Association
Prizes:
Pearl Poetry Prize
John Ciardi Poetry Prize
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Listing last updated: September 25, 2011