041 - Making A Name For Yourself During A Pandemic (Interview With Sherry Stuart-Berman)

<p>It often seems impossible to get people to listen to you. Nobody reads your books. Your open mic night is attended by two old ladies and a bunch of crickets. And on top of this, now it seems we have to be afraid even to be near each other. This year has been difficult for everyone, not just writers. But there are paths through the wilderness. In this episode I talk with Sherry Stuart-Berman and how she juggles being a writer, psychotherapist, mother and the wife of a physician's assistant in what some consider to be the COVID epicenter of the world. Sherry also shares with us her poem "Holder", first published by guesthouselit.com</p> <p><br></p> <p>Sherry Stuart Berman is a psychotherapist in private practice. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in <em>Guesthouse, The Night Heron Barks, Atticus Review, Blue Fifth Review,</em> <em>2 Horatio,</em> and<em> deLuge Journal, </em>among others,<em> </em>and in the anthologies <em>Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai </em>and <em>Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books. </em>She lives in Staten Island, NY, with her husband and son.</p> <p>Poetry publications ( online only)</p> <p><a href="https://www.guesthouselit.com/i5-stuart-berman-sherry-poetry" target="_blank">https://www.guesthouselit.com/i5-stuart-berman-sherry-poetry</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/63886855/2-horatio" target="_blank">https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/63886855/2-horatio</a></p> <p><a href="https://nightheronbarks.com/spring2020/sherry-stuart-berman/" target="_blank">Sherry Stuart-Berman – The Night Heron Barks</a></p> <p><a href="http://birdsthumb.org/oct-2018/extinction-or-the-circus-polar-bear-moves-on" target="_blank">Extinction, or the Circus Polar Bear Moves On — Bird's Thumb</a> (enter Sherry Stuart-Berman in author index)</p> <p><a href="https://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/poetry-special-five-poets-august-2016-16-8/" target="_blank">Poetry Special – Five Poets (August 2016 / 16.8) | Blue Fifth Review: Blue Five Notebook Series (wordp