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Katie Berta

Katie Berta

Katie Berta has her PhD in poetry from Ohio University and her MFA from Arizona State. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Louisville Review, BOAAT, Laurel Review, and other journals.

Sept/Oct 2018

Eurydice

By Katie Berta

If only my salvation had been in my own hands, mine, which might have taken it up with more solemnity, the way they’d cradle lace or jewelry, other female things— […]