MARGO BERDESHEVSKY, born in New York city, often writes in Paris. Her latest collection: "Before The Drought," from Glass Lyre Press (A finalist for the National Poetry Series.) "Kneel Said the Night (a hybrid book in half notes)" is forthcoming from Sundress Publications. A new poetry collection, "It Is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat" is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry.  Author as well of the poetry collections 'Between Soul & Stone,' and 'But a Passage in Wilderness' (Sheep Meadow Press.) Recipient of Grand Prize for Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award. Her book of illustrated stories, Beautiful Soon Enough, received the first Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Award from Fiction Collective Two (University of Alabama Press.) Other honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the & Now Anthology of the Best of Innovative Writing. Her works appear in the American journals Poetry International, New Letters, Kenyon Review, Plume, Psaltry & Lyre, The Night Heron Barks, The Collagist, Tupelo Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The American Journal of Poetry, Manoa, Bracken, among many others. In Canada, Canadian Women Studies. les cahiers de la femme. In Europe and the UK her works appear in The Poetry Review (UK) PN Review (UK,) Under the Radar, Levure Littéraire, The Creative Process, The Wolf, Europe, Siècle 21, Recours au Poème, & Confluences Poétiques. She may be found reading from her books in London, Paris, New York City, or somewhere new in the world.

Her “Letters from Paris” which include her photographs... have appeared for many years in Poetry International online. Here is one: https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/letter-from-paris-in-march-2019-from-margo-berdeshevsky/

For more information, kindly see: http://margoberdeshevsky.blogspot.com *************************************************************************

      !!! Pre-order KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT here & now!!

http://www.sundresspublications.com/prose/2022/10/pre-orders-now-available-for-kneel-said-the-night-by-margo-berdeshevsky/

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and now see this! 

            "Ripening"...READ THE POEM HERE:

for Poetry of the Sacred Award:  https://tinyurl.com/bdzy95sm

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SEE HER MOST RECENT ART + HYBRID WORKS BELOW:

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Link to the 3 hybrid works above in Bracken's "Over Tea and Tears for Ukraine" :

https://tinyurl.com/2p8az3zf

Link to the 2 hybrid works for Ukraine, pictured above : in Chant de la Sirene Journal

https://tinyurl.com/3p5vjvbr

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 Here are her 6 BOOKS...

...from Sundress Publications:

"Kneel Said The Night (a hybrid book in half notes)"

and

forthcoming from Salmon Poetry: "It Is Still Beautiful To Hear the Heart Beat" 

Link to Amazon Author page for all her books!:

http://amazon.com/author/margoberdeshevsky

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ORDER HERE: https://sundress-publications.square.site/product/pre-order-kneel-said-the-night-by-margo-berdeshevsky/169?cs=true&cst=custom 

—Sundress Publications announces the release of Margo Berdeshevsky’s Kneel Said the Night, a hybrid book in half notes.

Margo Berdeshevsky’s Kneel Said the Night weaves together intimacy, revamped fairy tales, erotic myths, and legends. Berdeshevsky articulates a composition that is balanced precariously between wonder and horror by merging poetry, prose, and visual art; the result is a fragmented world that offers a visceral, life-long journey of love and ruin. This collection explodes with relationships that are both passionate and complicated: a sick mother and her daughter, an unwanted child-turned-mother, a woman and her desires, a woman and her lovers, a woman and her predators, little boys and their predator. Oscillating between the real and the unreal, Kneel Said the Night renders pain and pleasure in equal parts with imagery that cuts deep yet embraces its reader, asking both “Who holds the winning hand?” and "Who will save us?”

Diane Seuss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of frank: sonnets, writes that “Composed of lyric essays, line- broken poems, revamped fairy tales, erotic myths, and histories clothed in see-through shifts, wearing Eau Sauvage men’s cologne, Kneel Said the Night: a hybrid book in half notes, is a lush, authoritative masterwork.”

Her  most recent book: is still available:

     "BEFORE THE DROUGHT"

"...a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport. " (Carolyn Forché) 

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!!!  "BEFORE THE DROUGHT" !!!

https://glass-lyre-press.myshopify.com/collections/full-length-collections-1/products/before-the-drought  

Also now on Amazon!! :  

https://www.amazon.com/Before-Drought-Margo-Berdeshevsky/dp/1941783392/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507829524&sr=1-1&keywords=Before+the+drought

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"Margo Berdeshevsky  is here to remind us that poetry can both dive and soar. She inhabits a world on the eve of destruction, a self on the ridge of despair, but she doesn't surrender for a minute. Writing a woman's body she is fearless, luscious, passionate..." Alicia Ostriker

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Previously published in the journal "The Night Heron Barks."  "ASCENSION."     Read it and listen to the audio ! Now, in her forthcoming book, "IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT" (Salmon Poetry/ 2022)

https://nightheronbarks.com/fall-2021/margo-berdeshevsky/

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One precious visit...

In September 2017 I had the huge honor and joy of reading one of my poems from "Before the Drought" to my once-upon neighbor and dear one, W.S. MERWIN. The poem is a Blason  written for him. Elderly and sage, he listened and thanked me, and our friend made a discreet photo. I also brought him a bottle of Chateau Neuf du Pape for his 90th birthday which was the following  day. Not sure which one he liked most, but so very honored and happy to have been with him to share poetry and grace. xxxx, margo

Yes, here is MORE TO READ AND LISTEN TO:

Videos

Reviews

Interviews

Poems

* Excerpt from a REVIEW of "Before the Drought" in INTERIM:

...from an insightful review in “Interim, a journal of poetry and poetics” by Carol Ciavonne, of Margo Berdeshevsky’s “BEFORE THE DROUGHT” : “The title can be read as a looking back, or as a forewarning of times to come. This is an important distinction, but the feeling of mourning is the same. And yet, in the book as a whole, Margo Berdeshevsky has compiled an atlas of the beauty that exists in nature, culture, and ourselves. Perhaps Berdeshevsky is recording and collecting these individual instances of our personal and collective lives, to be remembered and read later, perhaps by us, perhaps by future beings. Maybe this is the record we will use to prove we made beauty, we felt compassion, in spite of the wars and greed that ended in decimating our planet. Maybe our mourning will be redemption of sorts. And since we are beings in time, what else do we have but these remembered instances of beauty and kindness to comfort us?...”

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Read  "From the Winter of..."  (from Summer 2019 issue of PRAIRIE SCHOONER.)

https://poems.com/poem/from-the-winter-of/?fbclid=IwAR20PryzIhF8hR3SZkcQ_pKYtcYm4vSdjWxfEliiNh-Z4YXKT9OYXvZEwgY

The poem is now in her forthcoming book, "It Is Still Beautiful To Hear the Heart Beat"

Review in  the Brooklyn Rail ...   

http://brooklynrail.org/2017/09/books/Margo-Berdeshevskys-Before-the-Drought

"So...what we get is brilliance, the voice dominant, the intelligence demanding, and, in this book by this writer, a wholehearted recognition of the body, particularly the female body, in all its phases.”

                                      —Kelly Cherry—THE BROOKLYN RAIL  

The Brooklyn Rail calls Margo Berdeshevsky's "BEFORE THE DROUGHT" from Glass Lyre Press  ....................................one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2017! 

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Review in Gravel...

http://www.gravelmag.com/stephanie-papa.html 

"This new collection—praised by Kevin Prufer as “marvelous, deeply humane,” and by Carolyn Forché as “a book to read at the precipice on which we stand”—was a finalist for the National Poetry series in 2015 in its earlier stages. A forceful proclamation, Before the Drought is a mature meditation on the raw mortality of the human experience. The collection is ancestral, sensual, and aware; its fragmented composition resonates in our world’s growing uncertainty. Berdeshevsky delivers a complex patchwork of beliefs, death, courage, and vulnerability." —Stephanie Papa—GRAVEL

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**INTERVIEWS:  

**  Please listen here to KPFK Radio interview 

...............for The Poets Cafe....

from Los Angeles..................

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https://soundcloud.com/poetscafe/berdeshevsky-music

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* THE CREATIVE PROCESS:Interview:

https://www.creativeprocess.info/in-conversation/2018/7/5/it-is-still-beautiful-ccpc9

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Before the Drought is a lyric meditation on corporeal existence, suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time , a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport. The tutelary spirits of these poems are the feminine principle, and a flock of messengers that include blue heron, ibis, phoenix, egret, and blood’s hummingbird. In the surround we find ourselves in the magical world of a floating balcony, and a field of cellos, but it is a world in peril, now and in the time to come, on the night of the Paris massacres and in a poisoned future . In the City of Light, Berdeshevsky writes poems commensurate with her vision, poems that know to ask How close is death, how near is God? Hers is a book to read at the precipice on which we stand. — Carolyn Forché

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 "No I didn't kill myself...."   http://theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v8-berdeshevsky.html 

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http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v10-berdeshevsky.html

Until Soon....

                               To Contact Margo Berdeshevsky: 

margomargo1@hotmail.com 

https://margoberdeshevsky.blogspot.com 

https://www.amazon.com/Margo-Berdeshevsky/e/B001JOWB6W

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