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BENNINGTON — Bennington College announced the selection of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown as the commencement speaker for the Class of 2022. The faculty speaker will be Elena Demyanenko,
Mary Ruefle: Erasures runs at the Museum through the end of October. An opening reception with Ruefle will be held on August 20 from 4:00-6:00 pm. This reception is free and open to the public. Additionally, on August 18 from 4:00-5:00 pm, Mary Ruefle will be participating in a Facebook Live interview with Mark Wunderlich, director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, about the exhibition. This exhibition is co-curated by Erin McKenny, director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum, and Mark Wunderlich. “It has been a great privilege for us to assemble this work and to work closely with...
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi, The Galleons: Poems by Rick Barot, Deluge by Leila Chatti, Catrachos: Poems by Roy G. Guzmán, A More Perfect Union by Teri Ellen Cross Davis. DAY: I’m in a unique position in that I have access to so much incredible poetry through my job. The NEA awards grants each year to nonprofit presses to support the publication of some of the country’s best poetry (and prose) books, and we keep a library of those books on our shelves in the office. I also read manuscript excerpts for the Creative Writing Fellowships and often fall in love with a writer...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BENNINGTON â Poetry at Bennington, an endowed program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to Bennington College for public readings and close work with students, has announced its spring 2021 lineup of featured poets. This spring, in line with public health practices, all Poetry at Bennington readings will be presented remotely over Zoom. All events begin at 7 p.m. and are free, open to the public, and can be accessed and shared from the Poetry at Bennington webpage, www.bennington.edu/poetry-benningto...
** Chelsea Dingman’s first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Her second poetry collection, Through a Small Ghost, won The Georgia Poetry Prize (University of Georgia Press, 2020). She is also the author of the chapbook, What Bodies Have I Moved (Madhouse Press, 2018) . Visit her website www.chelseadingman.com. INTRODUCTION If I could tell my younger self one thing about being a poet, it is simply that a writer is someone who writes. That the interaction with the page, that relationship that I’ve valued and ...