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\"Monica
Eliza Karlin ’26 and her mother, the poet Monica Berlin. Berlin was the Richard P. and Sophia D. Henke Distinguished Professor of English at Knox College. Her poems and essays were published in several journals over the years including Bennington Review<\/em>, The Cincinnati Review<\/em>, Colorado Review<\/em> and Midwestern Gothic<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\"Monica
Berlin authored two chapbooks\u2014“Your Small Towns of Adult Sorrow and Melancholy”<\/em> and “Maybe to Region”<\/em>\u2014along with two volumes of poetry in addition to “No Shape Bends the River So Long”: “Elsewhere, That Small”<\/em> (2020) and “Nostalgia for a World Where We Can Live”<\/em> (2018), which won the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Prize.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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On an August morning last year, Kalamazoo College student Eliza Karlin \u201926 pulled onto the highway outside Galesburg, Illinois, driving a silver Mini Cooper\u2014just like the one her mom once had\u2014and began a 4,800-mile journey along the Mississippi River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her mom, poet Monica Berlin<\/a>, the same trip over a decade earlier\u2014routed spontaneously with paper maps\u2014provided inspiration and collaboration with her longtime colleague Beth Marzoni. Together, they coauthored Berlin\u2019s first book, a volume of poetry titled No Shape Bends the River So Long<\/em>, which won the 2013 New Measure Poetry Prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Shape <\/em>followed Berlin\u2019s 2013 journey in a collaborative \u201cwe,\u201d a voice that felt expansive and fluid, Karlin said. She would travel the same route carrying something heavier: Berlin died unexpectedly in November 2022, during Karlin\u2019s first term at K\u2014making hers a journey of grief, memory, self-discovery and enduring connection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI obviously didn\u2019t know what to do when she died,\u201d she said. \u201cI took a leave of absence shortly thereafter. I remember thinking, \u2018How would I ever be able to manage my grief?\u2019 I thought that following in her footsteps would be one of the best ways to do that.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karlin\u2019s trip became the foundation of her Senior Integrated Project (SIP)<\/a>, a poetry collection titled Bend the River Out of Shape No More<\/em>, molded by travel, memory and a search for healing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mapping What Came Next<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Karlin began planning the trip as a junior. Logistics required careful mapping, estimating mileage and costs, choosing stops and deciding whether to travel alone. Ultimately, she realized solitude mattered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile it may have been safer to do it with someone else, it was more impactful to do it by myself,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She woke up early, sought out unfamiliar food, and wandered through large cities such as Memphis, St. Louis, New Orleans and Minneapolis, and smaller towns including Cairo, Illinois; Natchez, Mississippi; and La Crosse, Wisconsin. The rhythm became steady: drive, listen, observe, write. She also created a soundtrack of albums she had never heard before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMemphis was Daft Punk,\u201d she said. \u201cThe bottom of the river was Cat Stevens. The headwaters were Big Thief.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those sounds fused with place. Now, she said, the emotional contours of each region are linked to distinct sonic landscapes in her mom\u2019s memory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her Mom as a Passenger<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a way, Karlin\u2019s mom was by her side the whole time. The Mini Cooper\u2019s passenger seat held 36 small jars, each containing some of Berlin\u2019s ashes. During the 25-day trip, Karlin scattered them at different points along the river and wrote a poem after each stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t perfect, but it was really something to follow in her footsteps\u2014to travel that distance by myself with her in my passenger seat, with her ashes,\u201d Karlin said. \u201cThe whole experience helped so much. I feel like a completely different person after the trip. I feel stronger, braver, more \u2026 cool.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berlin had drafted much of No Shape<\/em> while riding in a passenger seat. Karlin cherished the parallel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a two-person adventure for them,\u201d she said. \u201cThe dominant pronoun became \u2018we\u2019 or \u2018us\u2019 during their trip. Mine was just \u2018me\u2019 or \u2018I,\u2019 but I was writing all the poems on the road. It felt like I was writing with her.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karlin wrote 42 of the 45 poems included in her SIP during the trip itself, often pulling over to walk, reflect and write. Her SIP opens with three deeply personal poems she wrote beforehand. These earlier poems, she said, served as grounding context for the ones that followed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest unfolds as reflections on space, meditations on grief, portraits, odes and moments of clarity. Half share the title Ashen<\/em>\u2014a sequence of sonnets written after each ash-scattering ritual and modeled after Berlin\u2019s final book, also a sonnet collection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across states and landscapes, Karlin found her internal landscape shifting, too. Some days she wrote five poems; other days, she wrote none. At one point early on, she noticed her tone becoming cynical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI realized I didn\u2019t want to be cynical on this trip,\u201d she said. \u201cThis was a beautiful opportunity to grieve my mother, find joy in the world, and move on.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018There Was So Much Love\u2019<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The trip held joy, sadness, anger, confusion and love. But as the miles passed, something in her softened. There were practical challenges as well. As a trans woman driving alone through parts of the American South, she expected to feel afraid. Instead, she found compassion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven strangers had so much care,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was so much love in the people I interacted with day to day. I thought that was beautiful.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, the poems trace a young writer\u2019s emotional landscape as she moves toward acceptance\u2014not by leaving grief behind but by carrying it differently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Karlin, the project\u2019s success is measured in feelings first: relief, transformation and gratitude. She also points to the stories she carries now and the ones she is still learning to tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStorytelling is huge for me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt can be anything. It can be poetry, improv theatre, even Dungeons and Dragons. And this trip helped further my storytelling ability.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ambitious trek was supported by a Hearst Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a grant administered through the Provost\u2019s Office. Over the past three years, these fellowships have provided a total of $125,000 to assist 10 students annually in support of their research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like to say I\u2019m grateful to all the people who supported me as a student, at K and elsewhere,\u201d Karlin said. \u201cIt would have been impossible without them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her SIP, she said, was fun, but also sacred, transformative, life-altering, irreplaceable and unattainable through anything but her educational journey at K. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have a more profound outlook on life because of it,\u201d she said. \u201cGoing forward, I think it will guide me emotionally and personally. I grew up around a lot of poets, but I\u2019ve liked interacting with the poets here even better. I saw a lot of pretentiousness when I was younger. Here, the experience has only felt real. I think that authenticity is a lot more about what poetry means and I love that.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Lake
Lake Itasca, Minnesota, features the headwaters of the Mississippi River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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\"Chickasaw
Chickasaw Heritage Park in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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\"Abraham's
Abraham’s Oak is a concrete sculpture at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A sunset in Natchez, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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An overlook of the Mississippi River valley in Iowa.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

An Excerpt From Eliza’s SIP: Ashen (Final)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Friends of yours tell me stories of how you came to
the Headwaters of the Old Man. You drove, solo, like me,
through the night only to see the state government shut
down & with it, the state park. Barricades couldn\u2019t stop you. Your small self
pushed them away, & drove through to the welcome center. A year later, you would go
again with a friend & ask her, \u201cWhy are there so many people here?\u201d
I follow you, as I always will, & walk the same
path & I have the same thought &, in addition \u201cWhy are there so many
naked babies?\u201d A man asks me to take his picture & I watch the others,
working up courage to drop you off. & I realize, this place, this River
is not my own. It belongs to the millions who have followed it,
up & down, up & down, up & down. I release
you one last time & I think \u201cshe\u2019s gone\u201d but know
you never are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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