Song for Connie
Bill Berkson, "Song for Connie" from Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2009 by Bill Berkson. Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press.
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Poet Bill Berkson b. 1939
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD New York School (2nd Generation)
Subjects Living, Marriage & Companionship, Time & Brevity, Love, Realistic & Complicated, Romantic Love
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Born in New York in 1939, Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties. He is professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, where, between 1984 and 2008, he taught art history, art writing and poetry; Berkson also served as interim dean in 1992 and directed the Letters and Science and public lectures programs. He studied at . . .
Poems by Bill Berkson
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SUBJECT Living, Marriage & Companionship, Time & Brevity, Love, Realistic & Complicated, Romantic Love
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
SCHOOL / PERIOD New York School (2nd Generation)
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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