recent news
01 — retribution forthcoming, winner of Ohio University Press’s Hollis Summers Prize, is available now!
Claire Wahmanholm chose my collection, retribution forthcoming, for Ohio University Press’s Hollis Summers Prize. Thank you to editor Sarah Green and judge Claire Wahmanholm for supporting my work!
02 — Read my review of Prageeta Sharma’s new Onement Won in the L.A. Review of Books
Prageeta Sharma’s newest poetry collection is stunning in its complexity. Thanks to the team at L.A. Review of Books for publishing my take.
03 — Two new poems in Sixth Finch
Thank you to the editors of Sixth Finch for including my poems “Tangible Things” and “The Internet” in their beautiful new issue.
04 — Read Brittany Micka-Foos’s review of retribution forthcoming in Heavy Feather Review
Thank you to Brittany Micka-Foos and Heavy Feather Review for featuring retribution forthcoming. Micka-Foos says, of the book, “Berta speaks through these poems with a ticking-timebomb urgency. It draws you in and forces you to reckon with what’s impending.”
05 — Poems included in “Rorqual” song cycle by Wally Gunn
Versions of three of my poems were included in “Rorqual,” a 60 minute song cycle by brilliant composer Wally Gunn. “Rorqual” premiered on Friday, December 6th at Temperance Hall in South Melbourne, Australia.
