F.J. Bergmann's Writing

Poetry, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, and Various Comminglings of the Above

     POEMS
Over 200 of my poems have been published, in all kinds of places. Many have won awards, as well; "Companion to the Guide to the Norton Reader" was nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize by VOX. You can read a bunch of the poems, and see a list of journals that have published or intend to publish my work.

     CHAPBOOKS
Constellation of the Dragonfly (Plan B Press 2008) is now available.

Aqua Regia (Parallel Press 2007) can b e purchased on our Sales page, as well as Sauce Robert, co-winner of the 2003 Pavement Saw Press chapbook competition. To say nothing of Steaming A Head, a self-produced chapbook of previously-published poems, some by places that should have known better.

     STORIES
Pale Horse won the 2006 Mary Shelley Imaginative Fiction Award and appeared in Rosebud, Issue 35, April 2oo6. With my name right up there on the cover with Norman Mailer's. In the same size font. You can read the story here.

The Dream Tinker appeared in the fantasy short-story anthology Touched by Wonder (Meadowhawk Press 2007).

     ANIMATIONS
Poems, flash (in both senses) fictions, and stories, in moving pictures:

New Physics : Flash-animated SF artist's book.

Cartomancy : Flash-animated tarot reading, and a poem about it.

Lace : Flash-animated translation of a French concrete poem; selected for presentation at the 2002 Electronic Literature Organization Symposium.

     ANTHOLOGIES
"Eating Light" will appear in the 2007 Rhysling Award anthology.

"Dominion" has been accepted for a forthcoming anthology from Spec House of Poetry.

I'm proud to be part of “Assembling the Corpse” on WeirdDeer.com, October 2007.

Touched by Wonder (Meadowhawk Press 2007): YA fantasy short-story anthology, in which my story The Dream Tinker may be found!

Diagram 2 (New Michigan Press, 2006) includes "Melt Completely."

Rhymes for Adults (Pantoum.org 2006): relationships with a bloody edge, completely inappropriate for a Disney-movie audience, in which my poem "No 'Gator Love" appears; buy it at pantoum.org/rfa/purchase.html.

180 More (Random House 2005), edited by Billy Collins, includes my poem "An Apology."

Connected: Life in the Age of Computers (2000) includes “Photomancy.”

     TRANSLATIONS
“No Need” (Pas Besoin, Alain Bosquet) 2003 ei8ht photojournalism Vol. 1 #4.

“Istanbul In My Dreams” (Istanboul dans mes rêves, Uzeyir Cayçi ) 2003 Tryst #3.

“ The Poet As Furniture” (Le Poète Comme Meuble, Alain Bosquet) 2003 New England Poetry Club, Der-Hovanessian Prize honorable mention.