My friend confides in me how his wife cheated well, not cheated, but sent racy photos of herself to other menhow she created. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read strange borderlands poems. Ben berman s first book, strange borderlands able muse press, 20, won the peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards. He has received the erika mumford prize from the new england poetry club and artist fellowships from the massachusetts cultural council and somerville arts council. Join workshop leader ben berman at mass poetry s 2019 professional development seminar to learn new techniques and invigorate your classroom next year. Strange borderlands, ben berman s first fulllength collection, counterpoises insights with uncertainties while chronicling the poets immersion in a new culture.
My book frost in the low areas was a finalist for the 2014 massachusetts book award, along with amy dryanskys grass whistle her book won top spot, and its wonderful. His second collection, figuring in the figure, was recently accepted by able muse press. He has received fellowships from the massachusetts cultural council and somerville arts council and honors from the new england poetry club. Ben berman s first book, strange borderlands able muse press, 2012, won the peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards. He writes a regular column for grub street about writing while. His second book of poems, figuring in the figure, turned its. Poetry panel with ben berman, dzvinia orlowsky, and. He has received awards from the mass center for the book and new england poetry club and fellowships from the massachusetts cultural council and somerville arts council. About the author ben bermans first book, strange borderlands able muse press, 20, won the peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards. Ben berman, a member of our boston dads group, recently had published his second collection of verse. Today, ben berman teaches creative writing classes at brookline high school and with grub street writers. In terms of poetry, i am currently reading new collections by terrance hayes and iain haley pollock, and am also very much enjoying alexander chees book of. January gill oneil is the author of rewilding fall 2018, misery islands 2014, and underlife 2009, published by cavankerry press. Strange borderlands is the best book of poetry i have ever read.
Empty mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each friday. Ben berman ben berman is the author of two books of poetry, strange borderlands and figuring in the figure, and the newly released small book of short prose, then again. In high school, i weighed about ahundredpoundssoakingwet, so while all my friends were on the field playing sports i would sit on the sidelines and rewrite. Ben bermans poetry is deeply moving, raw, funny, engaging, sad, and insightful. Strange borderlands, your first book, took its impetus from, among other things, your experience as a peace. Ben bermans lyric poems set in zimbabwe dig deep into the casual and the casualty of daily life. The book opens with the 10part view full version of.
Strange borderlands, ben berman s first fulllength collection. He has received awards from the new england poetry club and fellowships from the. Ben berman s first book, strange borderlands, won the 2014 peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts. In compelling metrical, free verse and prose poems, berman provides a vivid narrative of exotic adventures, especially his peace corps service in zimbabwethe people, the. A new poem from ben berman this is a piece from my new book, then again, where i try to incorporate various meanings of a single word into a threepart narrative. Many of the poems in the book are rooted in my experiences abroad as a. He has received awards from the new england poetry club and fellowships from the massachusetts cultural council and somerville arts council. He is married and has a daughter and lives in the boston area. Able muse press publishing the new, the established.
Todays poem is the great molasses flood from figuring in the figure. How did you discover that you wanted to write poems. Ben berman ghan is a jewishsettler, writer, editor, and disabled academic based in tkarontotoronto, site of treaty and the williams treaty territory. Ben bermans first book, strange borderlands able muse press, 20, won the peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the.
Figuring in the figure able muse press covers many topics in its 88 pages but the final section of the book covers fatherhood, including birthing and baby care classes, the arrival of his child, and those first precious months of life. In ben berman s second fulllength collection, figuring in the figure, poems laden with aphorisms, puns, and witticisms meditate on shapes, angles, thinking about thinking, marriage, and the joys and trials of bringing a daughter into the world, among others. Ben berman is the author of the poetry collections, strange borderlands 20, which won the peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards, and figuring in the figure 2017. Click the link below to see all the mustread books of 2014. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new. Join us for a live panel and reading featuring writers ben berman, dzvinia orlowsky, and january oneil. Ben berman poetry fellow 08 is a teacher, poetry editor at solstice literary magazine, and author of two books. Ben discussed the evolution of his first poetry collection, strange borderlands, in an artsake post from december 2012. Ben berman grew up in maine, served in the peace corps in zimbabwe and currently lives in the boston area with his wife and daughter. His new collection of short prose, then again, is recently out from vine leaves press. Ben berman will read from his debut poetry collection, strange. When my older daughter was three, she used to love to draw all over the walls.
Ben bermans marvelous first book, strange borderlands, chronicles in startling and unforgettable poems his sojourn in zimbabwe and his immersion in a culture that both embraces and exiles him, attracts and reproaches, changing him forever. Ben s most recent poetry collection figuring in the figure is being published this month by able muse press, and ben will read from it at brookline booksmith. Essays and interviews from guernica editions forthcoming. Ben bermans debut poetry collection is a compelling examination of the authors experiences in zimbabwe as a peace corps volunteer.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Getting to know ben berman and his book figuring in the figure. Best sellers todays deals new releases books electronics gift ideas customer service home computers gift cards sell kindle books kindle unlimited prime reading bestsellers kindle daily deal kindle monthly deals free kindle reading apps buy a kindle content and devices kindle support. Ben berman is the author of two books of poetry, strange borderlands and figuring in the figure, and the newly released small book of short prose, then again. Ben bermans first book, strange borderlands, won the 2014 peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards. Ben bermans first book, strange borderlands able muse press, 20, won the peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards. Ben bermans riveting first poetry collection, strange borderlands. Over the course of three days, participants will have the opportunity to study the craft of poetry and will learn a range of handson techniques that they can use in their classrooms. He is the copoetry editor with mass poetrys fabulous jan oneil. Strange borderlands touches upon a variety of life issues through one mans journey as a peace corps volunteer in a completely foreign land to him.
This is a compelling poetry of strange borderlands where distance and intimacy collide. Ben berman s poetry is deeply moving, raw, funny, engaging, sad, and insightful. Ben berman s first book, strange borderlands, chronicled his time as a peace corps volunteer in zimbabwe and won the 2014 peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards. Enter the 2019 able muse contests poetry manuscripts poems flash fiction subscrobe to able muse, print edition poetry, prose and art. His second book of poems, figuring in the figure, turned its attention to the bewildering and transforming experiences of parenthood. Ben berman s first book, strange borderlands, won the 2014 peace corps award for best book of poetry and was a finalist for the massachusetts book awards. His second book is figuring in the figure, forthcoming from able muse press in 2017. His novel what we see in the smoke was published in 2019 with crowsnest books. Ben berman ghan is a jewishsettler, writer, editor, and academic based in tkarontotoronto, treaty and williams treaty territory. He has received awards from the new england poetry club and fellowships from the massachusetts cultural council and somerville arts.
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