Chanelle A. Bergeron
EDUCATION
Meredith College (2023) | BA English Language and Literature | Creative Writing | French
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Dirt Child (Dec 2023): “Death Wakes Up in Flowers,” “Under the Pear Tree, Yea,” “A broken ring remains broken,”
The Neptune Room Zine (Oct 2023): “On hay coo,” “You come in the night”
Empty House Press (Jun 2023): “Even from Here”
The Colton Review (Apr 2023): “A Recipe for Housekeeping”
Voices and Visions Journal (Dec 2022): “Aanti of the Puddle”
The Concern Reading Series (Jun 2022): “Half Mourning/Aubade”
Rabid Oak (2021): “Tasseomancy,” “Violette Hay,” “Ylang Ylang”
Dirt Child (2019): “lull of tune”
ÖMËGÄ (2017): “Funambulism,” “Little My”
The Four Poets (Oct 2016): pp.8-31
Other Worlds (Oct 2016): “Tourmaline”
Deluge (2014): “Chesed in Briah,” “Hod of Yetzirah,” “Yesod in Atziluth” Correspondence, No.3 (2009): pp. 101-105
Correspondence, No. 2 (2009): “molting/october,” “ravine,” Correspondence, No. 1 (2008): pp. 73-80
SELECTED RECORDINGS
Hot Live '21-23 Compilation: “the seesaw foretaste (after Zuzanna Ginczaka)"
Hot Releases 9th Anniversary Compilation: “In the Icicle Room”
Popnihil: “sunburn / solid firm” split cassette with Pamela_ and her sons
Untergang-institut: “new moon sunken wood” split cassette with Thorn
SELECTED READINGS & PERFORMANCES
Poetry Readings
2023
The Second Annual Sleepy Fest. Down Yonder Farm, Hillsborough, NC Paradiso Series XIV. All Day Records, Carrboro, NC
The Colton Review Reveal. Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
2021
The Concern Reading Series. Attic 506, Carrboro, NC
Jeri Frederickson Presents: Mapping Grietas with Leonora Simonovis. Online.
2018
Lump Gallery Presents: A Night of Poetry. Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2017
So & So Books Reading Series. Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
2016
The Four Poets issue release. Double Double Land. Toronto, ON
Sound Performances
2023
Agnieszka Holland’s “Total Eclipse”: a live soundtrack. Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Conner Calhoun presents: All Jokes Aside. Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC
Nick Klein presents: Bring the Flowers to the Theater. Sara’s Gallery, New York, NY
Jim Strong presents: Transcribing a Wilderness. Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2022
Jan Švankmajer’s “Alice”: a live soundtrack. Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2018
“Spina” with Caitlin Swett for Ladyfest CLT. GoodYear Arts, Charlotte, NC
2017
“Exploratory Improvisation with Paideia” for SwitchPoint Conference. Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw, NC
CURATORIAL
2023 | Agnieszka Holland’s “Total Eclipse”: A live soundtrack | Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2019-2023 | The Pearl Vine Quarterly newspaper | Raleigh, NC
2022 | Jan Švankmajer’s “Alice”: A live soundtrack | Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2018 | Specular Sounds No.2: Extending Her Vortex | Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2023
“Shades of Greater Subtlety: An Experiment in Exploratory Prose,” Wingate University
“In Her Castle: The Integration of Shirley Jackson’s Bifurcated Identities,” Meredith College
“Surrounded by Blossoms,” Sigma Tau Delta Convention, Denver, CO
2022
“Looking in the Links: Peering into the Unknown with Prose,” University of North Carolina Wilmington
Literary Garden Tour & Bulb Planting, Meredith College
2018
“Appreciating Goldenrod,” Bard College
2015
Bad Girls in Music, Art and Lit, Prof. Adrian Shirk, “Women in Electronic Music, ”Pratt Institute
“Circuit Breakers: Intro to Women in Electronic Music,” and “Intro to Electronic Pedals,” Girls Rock!
2014
Bad Girls in Music, Art and Lit, Prof. Adrian Shirk, “Tove Jansson,” Pratt Institute
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020 - 2023 | Poaceae: a flower essence + poetry series in six parts 2022 & 2023 | Guest instructor for Sister Spinster’s Flowering Round 2020 & 2021 | Guest instructor for Terra Sylva Herb School
2016 | Workshop leader for Girls Rock! Summer Camp, Charleston, SC
2016 | Poetry Fellow for Deep Center, Savannah, GA
2011 | Poetry Fellow for Writers in the Schools, Providence, RI
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