So many gorgeous poems as well as prose in this chapbook focused on all aspects of motherhood, the glorious and the devastating. I am so pleased to have one of my poems included. Order here:
https://rootsmoke.substack.com/p/maria-berardi
As with most of my more-recently published poems, this one is from a work in progress, a new book which takes as its theme the rearrangements and displacements of the psyche involved in the process of early recovery from addiction. It takes the form of “raw” prose poems interspersed with “cooked” verse poems to enact and reflect on this process, and the series of “Meditations in an Emergency” poems are on the raw side.
a journal out of Singapore whose name means “beautiful thinking.”
This new journal includes work by Ted Kooser and very cool art by Heather Seide. I am happy to have my poem, “Intoxication,” included as well. https://online.fliphtml5.com/nnzao/xinr/#p=66
Some years ago I had the absolute honor of writing poems to be included as part of Bonnie Ferrill Roman’s vivid, striking installations at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities Paper.Works exhibit. Her work was a diptych in two alcoves of the gallery space, entitled Ready to Burst, and Unravelling, on the themes of pregnancy and pregnancy loss, in her signature medium of handmade paper. These poems are now being published this spring in the literary magazine Collaburature, the focus of which is the pairing of verbal and visual art.
It features “Render,” which was part of Unravelling: https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/03/render-mb-fr.html?m=1
and “Gravida,” which was part of Ready to Burst: https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/05/gravida-mb-fr.html?m=1
In “The magazine for the old souls/the dreamers/lost spirits/small outdated pieces of metal,” another reprint from Cassandra Gifts: -ghttps://www.wingedpennyreview.com/maria-berardi-grace?fbclid=IwAR1_XEYpFzByF__ii5IQxwYJ9OdUjZq5nMhzAj4Bys7gp1bdQwWo58H0dGA_aem_AV2XCxdpzXIcUWgvGqg3q_jGf-cNVc231AU7nx1Cs2nyH7pBN49rn8PSeh7juVHR5-g
The wonderful UK journal The Lake: http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry-archive/nov23a/
Pleased to have this poem in digital edition of the current Plainsongs. Print edition also available https://www.corpuscallosumpress.com/shop
Maria Berardi 