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about the editor Richard M. Berlin, MD, physician and poet, received his undergraduate and medical education at Northwestern University. His poems have won numerous awards, and his first book of poetry, How JFK Killed My Father, won the Pearl Poetry Prize and was published by Pearl Editions. His poetry has also been published in a broad array of anthologies, literary journals, and medical journals, and his column, “Poetry of the Times,” is featured each month in Psychiatric Times. An associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, he is the author of sixty scientific papers and is co-editor of the book Sleep Disorders in Psychiatric Practice. In honor of his father, he established a creative writing prize for medical students, nursing students, and resident physicians at the medical school. He practices psychiatry in a small town in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. ...

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