Vol 2 No 1 2008
The poems in Gallery are from Margo Berdeshevsky's Tsunami Notebook. These poems relating to a monstrous wave, the tsunami, and its suites – come from her journey to Sumatra, to work in a survivors' clinic in Aceh, in the Spring of 2005.
Margo Berdeshevsky's poetry collection, "But a Passage in Wilderness," was published by The Sheep Meadow Press (2007.) Her honors include the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope’s Sue Saniel Elkind, places in the Pablo Neruda and Ann Stanford Awards, 5 Pushcart Prize nominations (and a special mention citation in 2008,) for works in leading literary journals including New Letters, Agni, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Pool, Nimrod, Runes, Margie, Women's Studies Quarterly. She received the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review award for innovative fiction, for "Beautiful Soon Enough," a collection of illustrated tales, forthcoming in 2009 from FC2. Her novel, "Vagrant," is also forthcoming, from Red Hen Press. Her Tsunami Notebook, was made following a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005, to work in a survivors' clinic in Aceh. Her "visual poem" series, "Les Ombres de Versailles," (The Ghosts of Versailles) was seen at the Parisian Galerie Benchaieb. She currently lives in Paris where she is considering conversations with madame de Sévigné's ghost who lurks, maybe, in the courtyard.
