C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s
May 2002
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C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s May 2002 |
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Margo Berdeshevsky Robert H. Winner Award, 2002 Poetry Society of America Judge: Marie Ponsot |
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Who Were Those Pretty Whom Beggars Call What Kind The Geese Are Back Every Afternoon Pele's Dark Landing Loose Star on hearing Pergolesi, a Friday Concerto This Sentence In The Falling of Late Fire Days |
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Margo Berdeshevsky is originally from New York, where she was an actress for many years. She now lives in Paris and
Maui, and reads her works on stages there and on others as diverse as Prague, Honolulu, Iowa, the Philippines, and Bali. Recent poems have appeared in Nimrod International
Journal, The Southern California Anthology, Rattapallax, Van Gogh's Ear,
Many Mountains Moving, Paris/Atlantic, Pharos, Bamboo Ridge, Angel Heirs, and
Tears in the Fence. Her awards include Border's Books/Honolulu Magazine Grand Prize Fiction
Award, Ann Stanford Award (Honorable Mention), Pablo Neruda Award
(finalist). Ms. Berdeshevksy lived and worked in the
House of Creation in Yalta at the invitation of the (former) Soviet Writers' Union. She was for many years a Poet in the Schools in Hawaii. Works recently completed include a memoir poetique, Vagrant, and a
collection of poetry, The Breaking Book. Both await a publisher. A
photographer as well, her images have been shown world-wide. An exhibit of
her newest visual-poem-collages opened in 2001 at the Galérie Librairie
Racine in Paris. Berdeshevsky is a Big City Litcontributing editor (Paris). Her writing and photography appear frequently on the magazine. She will be in New York for the PSA awards ceremony on May 2, which takes place in the New School's Tishman Auditorium (66 W 12th). |