Denise Bergman is the author of five poetry books, each with a single theme.

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, endurance, and deceit of “symbol” in the Statue of Liberty.

The Telling was generated by a woman’s one-sentence secret: she believed that as a child refugee she had accidentally killed her mother.

Seeing Annie Sullivan is based on the early life struggles of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller’s teacher.

Denise conceived and edited City River of Voices, an anthology of urban poetry.

Her “Keyhole Poems” series wedged the history of ten specific urban places with their present use. The poems were displayed in Cambridge, Mass., public libraries accompanied by historical and contemporary photos.

An excerpt from her poem “Red” about the effects of a slaughterhouse on a neighborhood, is permanently installed in a park in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She has been making Danglers, 3-D hanging paper structures, since 2020.

Denise has worked as a copyeditor and proofreader for art museum books and exhibit catalogs, and for women’s health-related books. She initiated and ran a Media Watch that confronted, and educated about, ageist images and stereotypes. She hosted a cable TV series called Women in the Arts.