Poetry Reading and Book Signing with Alesa Bernat

Alesa Bernat is the author of Everything Is Fine, a self-published poetry collection about Bipolar Depression. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in print and online literary journals and magazines such as Boreal Zine, Sad Girl Diaries, Black River Review, and North Star. Bernat’s poem “Elegy for Heartache Resurrected” received an Honorable Mention in the Seneca Park Zoo’s 2024 Water Into Words Nature Poetry Contest. She participated in the Adirondack Center for Writing’s 2024 Poem Village. She appeared in the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System’s 70th Anniversary Anthology, True North: Words and Images from New York’s North Country. Bernat was recently part of the “Artist as Entrepreneur Program” made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and St. Lawrence County Arts Council (SLC Arts).