Alesa Bernat
Spoken and Lyrical Poetry
2024 - "Elegy for Heartache Resurrected"
HONORABLE MENTION, Seneca Park Zoo's 2024 Nature Poetry Contest, Water Into Words
2024 - "When the Midsummer Comes, I Live as a Neuroptera"
"True North: Words and Images from New York's North Country", Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System 70th Anniversary Anthology
2023 - "Mania, My Mistress"
Sad Girls Diaries, An Online Literary Magazine
2010 - "Grandmother"
North Star, Plattsburgh State University College Literary Journal
2008 - "Berry Lemonade"
Black River Review, A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Fine Arts: Volume XVIII
2024 - "Unsuitable Elements"
Boreal Zine, Issue 16: Anarchy
2024 - "What We Said When I Left the Mental Ward"
Black River Review, A Journal of Poetry, Prose and Fine Arts: Volume XXXIV
2011 - "Songbird of Jealousy", "Smile", and "Neurological Lover"
North Star, Plattsburgh State University College Literary Journal
2009 - "Modern Hunting"
Black River Review, A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Fine Arts: Volume XIX
Literary Journals,
Magazines, and Anthologies
Self-Published Poetry Collection
Everything Is Fine
by Alesa Bernat
Alesa Bernat's debut poetry and prose collection is a raw and honest portrayal of the causalities caused by carving a path out of our darkness. Bernat's poems transition the reader from the perspective of a young naive woman through the diagnosis, treatment, and aftermath of Bipolar Depression.