Denise Bergman
Summer 2024 | Poetry
Denise Bergman is the author of five books of poetry. The Shape of the Keyhole takes place during one week in 1650 as a falsely accused woman awaits her hanging. Three Hands None delves into the night forty years ago when the author was attacked in her bed by a stranger. A Woman in Pieces Crossed a Sea centers on the making and endurance of “symbol” in the Statue of Liberty. The Telling was generated by a refugee woman’s lifelong secret. Seeing Annie Sullivan is based on the early life of Helen Keller’s teacher.
Her poems have been widely published and the first stanza of her poem “Red,” about a neighborhood near a slaughter-house, is permanently installed in a public park in Cambridge, Mass.
Visit her website at denisebergman(dot)com