Poetry Collections
Herschlag’s poetry moves between witness and elegy, confronting silence, power, trauma, and survival with unflinching clarity, resulting in healing. She uses her own photography and her husband’s art to trigger her ekphrastic poems.
When the Mouth Can’t Speak The Body Will
#MeToo
Poems and Pictures by Jane Berger Herschlag, 2019
When The Mouth Can’t Speak The Body Will–through her poetry and photography readers see the progression of Jane Berger Herschlag from a sickly victim of child abuse to a triumphant survivor. She struggled through years of repression till she turned her unchildhood into art. Jane vividly shows the impact of emotional and physical trauma that can damage the immune system; but the yearning for homeostasis can reverse that trend, and the immune system can regain its vigor.
Witnessing one’s history through analysis and journaling heals, and going public at readings enhances that recovery. Jane curated poetry readings at the 63rd Street YMCA. and at a Fifth Avenue Deli in NYC, and after moving to CT, at the YMCA in Danbury.
Bully In the Spotlight
Jane’s 40-page docu-poetry chapbook is published by Pudding House Publications