publications:
Leda’s Daughters
Leda’s Daughters, recipient of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, pays homage to the lives and labors of 19th-and early 20th-century African American migrant women. It also calls for affiliation with other histories and personhoods, like that of 17th-century Mohawk Saint, Kateri Tekakwitha, who found herself, like so many Indigenous and African-descended women, caught in the crosshairs of an Atlantic world in conflict.
Obsidian and The Mercy Seat
Berlin's recent collection, Obsidian, won the 2024 Wells College chapbook contest. Following the publication of Leda's Daughters, she is at work on her second full-length collection, The Mercy Seat. An in-progress manuscript, The Mercy Seat works with, through and against the African American religious tradition, transposing Biblical tales onto 19th-and 20th-century African American life and history. In so doing, it invites questions about the nature of faith and the state of being forsaken.
“I Am the Fugitive Daughter of Your Eyes,” “Orion Women,” and “Pilot, 1935,” The Iowa Review
A folio: “Iphigenia at Birmingham 1963”; “Love Root: Atlanta 1881”; “Lakota Grammar”; “Atlantic Crossings: for Pocahontas,” The Georgia Review
“Shadow Feast: for Sojourner Truth” and “John Brown’s Body,” Boston Review
“Discuss,” Beloit Poetry Journal
“Wild Flag” and “For C.&M.,” Women’s Studies Quarterly’s: “Protest Issue”
“Untitled,” Red Ink: Special Issue, “Native American Women”
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