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Poet Bio: Peter Bergman is the Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Berkshire County Historical Society at Herman Melville's Arrowhead in Pittsfield, MA and was the Executive Director of The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society at Steepletop, overseeing the 200 acre farm property that was the poet's home for the last 25 years of her life. As J. Peter Bergman he also writes theater reviews, feature articles and book reviews for BerkshireBrightFocus.com and TheBerkshireEdge.com, and teaches for BCC's Elderhostel program. He has written for The Independent, The Advocate, The Chatham Courier, The Seven Times, Playbill Magazine, The New York Times, CBS-Newsfeed, and other journals and news services.

His book of short stories, Counterpoints, published in 1999, received the Friends of Charles Dickens New York, award for fiction in 2001. He published fiction, plays and poetry in The Berkshire Review. For eight and a half years he served as President of the Berkshire Writers Room. In 2004 he was awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Volunteer of the Year award at a ceremony in the State House in Boston. He has served as a corporator for Downtown, Inc. in Pittsfield and has served on a variety of local boards including Success by Six, Ad-Lib of the Berkshires, Voices Consumer Theater Company, RSVP Pittsfield, and the Berkshire Family History Association. He is also the author of nine local history plays, performed in Pittsfield and Dalton, as well as other works. He has authored, or co-authored, eleven other books including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He runs a poetry workshop each year at Arrowhead.

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