Poets in Port

Pearl Ketover Prilik is a poet/writer and psychoanalyst in private practice. Her, earliest adulthood was spent living and teaching in St. Croix and St. Thomas which are still home to her heart. Dr. Pearl or PKP as she is familiarly known has had three nonfiction books published (Stepmothering A Different Kind Of Love, The Art of Stepmothering, Becoming An Adult Stepchild), was editor of the “Adelphi Post-Doc Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy” newsletter and editor-contributor of two international poetry anthologies (Prompted- An International Collection of Poems and Beyond the Dark Room, An International Collection of Transformative Poetry.) She has authored several poetry collections of her own and been delighted to see her poetry and fiction appear in a wide variety of journals and collections including Four and Twenty, World of Myth, Indigo Rising, Burningword, Haiku Journal, scissors & spackle, Tuck Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, Bards Annual, and NCPL anthologies twice as an honorable mention awardee and in 2024 as 2nd placer. In 2025 she became a member of the club no one asks to join and is enormously grateful for positive outcomes, during this time she was ironically awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Arts in Partnership. “Dr. Pearl” as she is familiarly known, is a regular contributor to the open Mic of Shore Poets in Long Beach and proud foreword writer of the anthology Poetry:It’s a ‘Shore’ Thing! In an Unsure World, An Anthology of Micro-Memoirs from the south Shore Poets of Long Island. PKP is a long time local resident of the barrier island of Lido Beach, N.Y. where she lives close enough to the water she loves with husband, D.J./Ira Prilik and her humanoid cat Oliver. PKP is moved by a strong belief that poetry more closely approximates the multi-layered diaphanous experience of internal thought and the way the mind processes the world in which all live alongside the narratives that one creates from lived experience. You can read more of her work and background at her site "Imagine” at http://drpkp.com