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David Berman
(1934-2017)
Massachusetts

David Berman was a Massachusetts lawyer and member of the Powow River Poets. [Source: The Boston Globe, April 27, 2006]

Berman graduated from the University of Florida, and studied at Johns Hopkins University and Boston University. He obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School where he studied with Archibald MacLeish.

Berman's work has also appeared in numerous magazines, including Counter Measures, The Formalist, Harvard Magazine, Piedmont Literary Review, The Epigrammatist, Sparrow, Iambs & Trochees , and Orbis. He is the author three chapbooks: Future Imperfect (State Street Press Chapbooks, 1982), Slippage (Robert L. Barth, 1996), and David Berman: Greatest Hits 1965-2002 (Pudding House Publications, 2002).

Boston Globe Obituary