Margo Berdeshevsky’s newest collection of poetry, Before The Drought, will be published by Glass Lyre Press in June 2017; it was also a finalist for the National Poetry Series 2015. Her earlier collections are Between Soul & Stone, and But a Passage in Wilderness (Sheep Meadow Press). Her Beautiful Soon Enough (University of Alabama Press), a book of illustrated stories, received Fiction Collective Two’s first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award. Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her works are published in journals worldwide. She currently lives and writes in Paris. For more, please see: http://margoberdeshevsky.blogspot.com
Poetry
Fall 2007
Of the Song Bird
Legend tells of the community of birds who had wings but no song as yet : of a contest offered them by the god : of the prize of song—offered […]
Winter 2012
Square Black Key
The Norman coast woman, no longer in her middle American housecoat as she remembers it, now naked under fuchsia silk, recalls the old robe on its peg in once-upon Akron. Was it called a housecoat? Yes. A thing to knot and tie. Oui.
Spring 2010
Scene Two
In another garden, a poet’s brother had called the lark a fist of blood & feathers; she couldn’t tell me that. A shaman, failed, o my poor brother, she whispered […]