F.J. Bergmann

photo by Milton Friend

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F.J. Bergmann
Poynette, Wisconsin

BIO
Jeannie Bergmann, a web designer and artist, maintains madpoetry.org, wfop.org, and other sites. Her poems have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Cannibal, Margie, the North American Review, nth postition, Southern Poetry Review, Tattoo Highway, on asininepoetry.com (as Easter Cathay), and her Flash translation Lace was shown at the 2002 Electronic Literature Symposium. She is thewinner of the 2003 Rinehart National Poetry Award, the 2004 Pauline Ellis Prose Poetry Prize, Rosebud's 2006 Mary Shelley Imaginative Fiction contest, and the 2008 Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Award for the Short Poem. She co-edited the 2008 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar. She is available for readings and poetry workshops.

PUBLICATIONS
NEW! Constellation of the Dragonfly, Plan B Press, 2008, chapbook - $13.00
Aqua Regia, Parallel Press, 2007, chapbook - $10.00
Steaming A Head, 2005, chapbook of poems published in literary journals - $6.00
Sauce Robert, co-winner of 2003 Pavement Saw Press chapbook contest - $6.00
An Elaborate Arrangement of Paper Flowers in a Large Baroque Épergne, 2000, darkly comic fantasy story chapbook - $7.50
Life on Mars, 2000, epic sci-fi poem - $7.50
Psychic Massage Parlor, 1999, chapbook - $5.00
Most Days, 1998, chapbook - $3.00

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BOOKINGS

2008

December
Wednesday, December 10, 7 pm. Reading with Sarah Busse & Adam Gregory Pergament. Isabella's at the Ryan House, 1375 Locust St., Dubuque, IA.
Sunday, December 7, 2 pm. Wisconsin Poets' Calendar reading. Avol's Bookstore, 315 West Gorham St., Madison, WI.

November
8. Reading at Chapterhouse Café in Philadelphia, PA.

October
10. Reading with Bruce Dethlefsen, Village Booksmith, Baraboo, WI.
26. Reading with Adam Gregory Pergament and Dubuque poets Paula Neuhaus and Alice Oleson. Avol's Bookstore, Madison, WI.

September
21-27. Attendee at Viable Paradise fantasy anbd science-fiction writing workshop, Martha's Vineyard, MA.

June
8. Reading, signing, & book release party for Constellation of the Dragonfly. Avol's Bookstore, Madison, WI.

May
2. Featured reader at Tom Ferella's Nocturne multimedia presentation, Winnebago Studios, Madison, WI.

April
Featured publishing workshop presenter, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets spring conference, Madison, WI.

2007
Exhibitor/reader in artists' books exhibit, Madison, WI.

September 12-13: Reading and workshop at Elderhostel, Green Lake, WI.

POEM

Suspended Animation

We left the atmosphere in a glittering swarm
of endless duplications of our shiny carapaces,
their clepsydral entrails studiously trickling,
counting down to a less unlikely tomorrow
as we fled the noisy light of our reddening sun.

A blue star in the constellation of the Dragonfly
was chosen again and again by the fanned array
of holy images, no matter how many times
magicians shuffled their whispering surfaces.
For days, everyone took turns at the telescopes

Beyond familiar stars the field worked for years,
connecting us with invisible filaments to our past.
When an unexpected demonstration of a doctrine
in the sacrament of physics turned our brothers
to a sudden flash, then cooling cinders drifting
into another universe, we became uncertain
of our destination, lost in an altered cosmology.

We entered the stacked, small cavities of oblivion
and sealed their doors against the pressure of grief.
Sleepwalking toward entropy, we float onward
in a silent void, wrapped in the blanket of time.
In the house of dreams we open the curtains
and wait for the pale light we know will come
from a strange sun rising over an alien world.

F.J. Bergmann

Winner of the 2002 BaltiCon science-fiction poetry contest and
published in Lite–Baltimore's Literary Newspaper May/June 2002

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