D.C. Berry (1942 - Present)

David Chapman Berry was born July 23, 1942, in Vicksburg, but he grew up in Greenville. He received a B.S. at Delta State College and then, after turning down medical school, he worked a year for General Motors. He served as a medical service officer for three years in Vietnam, where he wrote his first volume of poetry, Saigon Cemetery (1972). He is now an English professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

First Line	Comments
For quick mental hygiene, the snail's my white
Laertes has groupies, proof he has taste,
Mel Gibson's Hamlet stinks -- doll Mel. Wind up	1 Comment
Neutrinos do zip but swap back and forth
Ophelia claims we're dead and gives me back
Ophelia puked hourly dawn till dusk,
Our mascot lives low, a baby alligator.
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditations