As buried memories surface, Herschlag transforms from a survivor of childhood abuse into a voice of resilience and awakening. When words failed her, paper became her witness and poetry became her release.
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Jane's Work
Prose
“Resistance: An Anthology of Overcoming”, includes ten writers, split evenly between novelists and poets. They explore resistance as a human tension that permeates our education, jobs, politics, and personal lives. The books go on sale this summer; pre-sale has begun.
Poetry
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.
Her full-length collection When the Mouth Can't Speak the Body Will (Finishing Line Press) and docu-poetry chapbook Bully In the Spotlight (Pudding House Publications) are available for purchase. Her work also appears in four anthologies and numerous university presses.
Artwork
Featuring the artwork of Herb Herschlag, whose paintings and visual work complement Jane's poetry in texture and spirit. Together, word and image become a conversation — each deepening what the other reaches toward. A selection of Herb's pieces are presented here alongside Jane's written work.
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About the Artist
As buried memories surface, Herschlag transforms from a survivor of childhood abuse into a voice of resilience and awakening. When words failed her, paper became her witness and poetry became her release. Nature always nurtured her, but it extended even deeper healing as she opened herself to photography.
A powerful testament to breaking silence, reclaiming truth, and healing out loud.
Featured Poetry
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.
