Kristin Berger
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Echolocation
Let's work this out in the dark.
I find you, you find me.
A snapshot under a streetlight's warm brim,
small furred mouths taking
moth bodies whole.
Intimacy is blood in the pitched chambers,
trace and return, the long-foretold
figure-eight of oxygenated rush.
It requires a blind faith.
Work and pump and beat―
See where the heart strikes
the scaffolding of ribs, its desire
as clear as a rubied bell,
clapper suspended like a bird, waiting
for its note to fly back?
- Kristin Berger, from Echolocation, Cirque Press 2018
Prizes Won:
Playa Writers Residency, 2013, 2015, and 2017. Starkey Research Forest Writers Residency, Summer 2013. The Spring Creek Project's Andrew Forest Writers Residency, Fall 2012. Second Prize, Oregon Poetry Association, Collaborative Poem with Scot Siegel, Fall 2012. Runner-Up, New Letters Reader's Choice Award in Poetry, 2009. First Prize, Oregon State Poetry Association, Spring 2005 & Fall 2009.
Private E-mail:
kristin.berger@yahoo.com
First Name:
Kristin
Photo of the Author:
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Last Name:
Berger
Yes
Are you interested in giving readings?:
Yes
Are you willing to travel to give readings?:
Yes
Listed as:
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet
Application Accepted:
Application Accepted
Website:
Portland,
OR
10225 SE Yukon St.
Portland,
OR
97266
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The Inflectionist Review, Issue 6, June 2017
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Three Friends Reading Series
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Portland Family Magazine, Oct. 1, 2010, Jillian Starr
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Writing the Life the Poetic Zine
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Oregon Poetic Voices Project, Lewis & Clark College
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