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Begun in 2012, Poetry at Bennington is a series of brief multi-day residencies by prominent contemporary poets, both established and emerging, that takes place on the Bennington College campus.
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Item Bennington College Announces a $4 million Gift to Support Poetry Initiative (Press Release)(2019-04-11)Poetry at Bennington, a program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to Bennington College for public readinsa and close work with students, has been endowed with a gift of $4 million from longstanding donors to the College.Item Fall 2023 Poetry at Bennington Series Announced(2023-09-28) Office of CommunicationsItem National Book Awards Honorees Featured in 2019-2020 Poetry at Bennington Series (Press Release)(2019-09-23) Redmond, Natalie (Associate Writer)Poetry at Bennington, an endowed program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to Bennington College for public reading and close work with students, has announced its 2019-2020 lineup of visiting poets.Item Nick Flynn Poetry at Bennington(2016-10-26)Item Poetry at Bennington (Poster) : Spring 2015 readings(2015-04-01) Rankine, Claudia; Young, Kevin; Smith, Carmen Gimenez; Ca, ConradPoster of a series of events held at Tishman Lecture Hall at Bennington College, April 1, 2015 - May 15, 2015. Poetry at Bennington is a series of readings, lectures, and talks by prominent American and internationally recognized poets which takes place on the campus of Bennington College. It was established in 2012 with generous support from Deborah Klang Smith and Henry Dale Smith, Jr. P ’05.Item Poetry at Bennington (Poster) Spring 2018 Series(2018-03) Lewis, Robin Coste (Author); Shockley, Evie (Author); Shapero, Natalie (Author); Gay, Ross (Author); Parker, Morgan (Author)Poster for the Poetry At Bennington series of lectures.Item Poetry at Bennington Fall 2014 (Poster)(2014-09)Visiting poets Mark Bibbins, April Bernard, Jorie Graham, and Timothy Donnelly. Poetry at Bennington is a series of readings, lectures, and talks by prominent American and internationally recognized poets which takes place on the campus of Bennington College. It was established in 2012 with generous support from Deborah Klang Smith and Henry Dale Smith, Jr. P ’05.Item Poetry at Bennington Fall 2015 Readings (Poster)(2015) Reeves, Roger; Lasky, Dorothea, 1978-; Messer, Sarah; Barot, Rick, 1969-; Davis, Olena KalytiakPoetry at Bennington is a series of readings, lectures, and talks by prominent American and internationally recognized poets that takes place on the Bennington College campus. It was established in 2012 with generous support from Deborah Klang Smith and Henry Dale Smith, Jr. P ’05. ROGER REEVES | SEPTEMBER 30 | Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, among others. Reeves was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas-Austin and is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His first book is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). -- DOROTHEA LASKY| OCTOBER 14 | Dorothea Lasky has published four collections of poetry, AWE (2007), Black Life (2010), Thunderbird (2012), and ROME (2014) as well as several chapbooks, including the polemical Poetry Is Not a Project (2010). Her poems have appeared in a number of prominent publications, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review. Lasky was awarded a Bagley Wright Fellowship in 2013, and she is an assistant professor of poetry at Columbia University. -- SARAH MESSER|RICK BAROT | OCTOBER 28 | Sarah Messer has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation. She is the author of four books, the most recent being Dress Made of Mice (Black Lawrence, 2015). In 2008-2009, she was a Poetry Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Currently she runs One Pause Poetry (onepausepoetry.org) in Ann Arbor, Michigan and works at White Lotus Farms. -- Rick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, and Want (2008), which won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize, and Chord, published in 2015. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications. Barot is the poetry editor of New England Review, and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University, where he is also the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop, PLU’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing. -- OLENA KALYTIAK DAVIS | NOVEMBER 4 | Olena Kalytiak Davis’s first collection of poetry, And Her Soul Out of Nothing (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), was selected by Rita Dove for the 1997 Brittingham Prize. She is also the author of Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, And Other Off and Backhanded Importunities (Bloomsbury/Tin House, 2003) and The Poem She Didn’t Write and other Poems (2014), Davis is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rasumon Fellowship, the 1996 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award,Item Poetry at Bennington Fall 2016 Series (Poster)(2016-09) Sinclair, Safiya; Hall, James Allen; Ruefle, Mary; Flynn, Nick; Armantrout, Rae; Youn, MonicaWednesdays, 7pm, Tishman Lecture HallItem Poetry at Bennington Fall 2017 Series (poster)(2017-09) Calvocoressi, Gabrielle; Howe, Marie; Akbar, Kaveh; Vang, Mai DerWednesday 7:00 pm Tishman Lecture HallItem Poetry at Bennington Fall 2018 Series (poster)(2018) Martin, Dawn Lundy; Borzutzky, Daniel; Galvin, Rachel; Cruz, Cynthia; Simonds, Sandra; Choi, Don MeeWednesdays at 7:00pm Tishman Lecture Hall.Item Poetry at Bennington Fall 2020 Series (poster)(2020-09) McCrae, Shane; Petrosino, Kiki; Harjo, Joy; Donnelly, Timothy; Lasky, Dorothea; Soldier, Layli LongWednesday 7:00 pm VirtualItem Poetry at Bennington Presents : Justin Phillip Reed(Bennington College -- Events, 2021-10-06) Reed, Justin PhillipJustin Phillip Reed : Winner of the National Book Award in Poetry.Item Poetry at Bennington series (poster)(2023) Literature DepartmentItem Poetry at Bennington Spring 2016 (Poster)(2016) White, Orlando; Koestenbaum, Wayne; Simic, Charles, 1938-; Hong, Cathy Park (Professor at Sarah Lawrence College)ORLANDO WHITE | WEDNESDAY | MARCH 9 | Orlando White is from Tólikan, Arizona. He is Diné of the Naaneesht’ézhi Tábaahí and born for the Naakai Diné'e. White earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of LETTERRS (2015) and Bone Light (2009). White’s work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. The recipient of a residency from the Lannan Foundation, White teaches at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, and in the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. WAYNE KOESTENBAUM| WEDNESDAY | APRIL 20 | Wayne Koestenbaum is the author of several collections of poetry, including Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (Turtle Point Press, 2012) and Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films (Turtle Point Press, 2006). Koestenbaum is also widely known as a cultural critic and his book The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire (Poseidon Books 1993) was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Koestenbaum’s honors include a “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Prize and a Whiting Writer’s Award. He lives in New York City where he is a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. CATHY PARK HONG | WEDNESDAY | APRIL 27 | Cathy Park Hong’s most recent poetry collection is Engine Empire (W. W. Norton, 2013). Her debut, Translating Mo’um (Hanging Loose Press, 2002) received a Pushcart Prize. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution (W. W. Norton, 2007) was selected for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Hong is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Village Voice Fellowship for Minority Reporters. Her poems have been published in Poetry, A Public Space, Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Baffler, Boston Review, The Nation, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and is an Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. CHARLES SIMIC | WEDNESDAY | MAY 11 | Charles Simic is the author of numerous collections of poems, among them: The Lunatic; Master of Disguises; Selected Poems: 1963–2003 (for which he received the 2005 International Griffen Poetry Prize); The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry); Classic Ballroom Dances (which won the University of Chicago's Harriet Monroe Award and the Poetry Society of America’s di Castagnola Award). A collection entitled Sixty Poems was released in honor of his appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate. Simic has also published a number of prose books, most recently Memory Piano, and many translations of poets from former Yugoslavia as well. Poetry at Bennington is a series of readings, lectures, and talks by prominent American and internationally recognized poets which takes place on the campus of Bennington College. It was established in 2012 with generous support from Deborah Klang Smith and Henry Dale Smith, Jr. P ’05. All events at Tishman Lecture Hall, Spring 2016Item Poetry at Bennington Spring 2017 Series (Poster)(2017-03) Christie, Heather; Schomburg, Zachary; Hayes, Terrance; Nadelberg, Amanda; Schiff, Robyn; Threthewey, NatashaPoster for the Poetry at Bennington lecture series, Spring 2017.Item Poetry at Bennington Spring 2019 Series (poster)(2019-04) Dawson, Erica; Malech, Dora; Jess, Tyehimba; Farnsworth, Robert; Teicher, Craig Morgan; Ford, KatieWednesday 7:00 pm Tishman Lecture HallItem Poetry at Bennington Spring 2021 Series (poster)(2021) Nakayasu, Sawako; Metres, Philip; Mort, Valzhyna; Barot, Rick; Wunderlich, Mark; Barnett, Catherine; Bertram, Lillian-YvonneWednesday at 7:00 pm VirtualItem Poetry at Bennington Spring 2023 events(2023-03)Upcoming events for the Spring 2023 series of the Poetry at Bennington series.Item Poetry at Bennington, Fall 2020 (Poster)(2020-09-16) McCrae (Author), Shane; Petrosino (Author), Kiki; Harjo (Author), Joy; Donnelly (Author), Timothy; Lasky (Author), DorotheaPoetry at Bennington is a series of readings, lectures, and talks by prominent American and internationally recognized poets which takes place on the campus of Bennington College. It was established in 2012 with generous support from Deborah Klang Smith and Henry Dale Smith, Jr. P ’05.