Literature: Related Content
![Shires of Vermont](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Shires_of_Vermont300x225.jpg?itok=XudYZxbM)
President Mariko Silver and faculty members Anne Thompson, director and curator of the Usdan Gallery; Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of special programming and the Robert Frost Stone House Museum; and Dina Janis, artistic director of the Dorset Theatre Festival; spoke with the Bennington Area Chamber of Commerce about the region's arts landscape.
![The Southampton Review Cover](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/TSR300x225.jpg?itok=a5E59vz-)
Marguerite Feitlowitz's translation of The Other Book by Luisa Valenzuela, one of Argentina's most prominent writers and literary activists, appears in the Summer/Fall 2018 issue of The Southampton Review.
![Crossett Library](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Crossett-Library300x225.jpg?itok=MD_O0cpB)
Want to read like a Bennington student? Kick off your summer reading with the most checked out books from Crossett Library during the 2017-2018 school year.
![The Feral Detective](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Feral-Detective300x225.jpg?itok=DmjyVAj_)
Kroll & Co. Entertainment has acquired the film rights to The Feral Detective, the upcoming novel from Jonathan Lethem '86.
![Age of Glass](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Age-of-glass300x225.jpg?itok=fvY6vjaD)
Faculty member Anna Maria Hong's debut poetry collection Age of Glass, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s 2017 First Book Poetry Competition, has garnered a starred review from Publishers Weekly.
![The Passion of Marta](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/the-passion-of-marta300x225.jpg?itok=4izxH5kN)
The Passion of Marta, the second novel from Caren Umbarger '76, was named a 2017 Silver Winner for the Nautilus Book Awards for Fiction: Self-Published & Small Press.
![Ayesha Raees](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Ayesha-Raees300x225.jpg?itok=mgjuE9AZ)
Ayesha Raees ’18 has been selected as an Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) 2018/19 Margins Fellow.
![Prisoner of Pinochet](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Prisoner-of-Pinochet300x225.jpg?itok=oex-7mcC)
Faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz published "A Tale of Survival," a review of Sergio Bitar's Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp, through ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America.
![Trainline](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Trainline_300x225.jpg?itok=KGbCxaCj)
Search engine optimization, data management, and...rapping? At first glance, selling train tickets might not seem like an artistic job, but as Zanna Huth ’20 can attest, Trainline’s innovation-friendly culture encourages creative work.
![Michael Pollan](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/michael-pollan%20300x225.jpg?itok=1cikiAq2)
The latest book from journalist, food reform advocate, and award-winning author Michael Pollan '76 will explore how mind-altering psychedelics might be used to treat depression, anxiety, and addiction.
![Maya Healers](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Maya%20Healers%20300x225.jpg?itok=eSITTw6r)
Fran Antmann ’69 recently published Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams (Nirala Publications, 2017).
![Sibyl Kempson '95](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/SibylKempson_BW300x225.jpg?itok=R3PJIw_C)
Sibyl Kempson '95 is the recipient of the 2018 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-career.
![The Sky is Yours](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/the%20sky%20is%20yours.jpg?itok=EmM9axty)
The Sky Is Yours, the debut novel by Chandler Klang Smith ’05, is receiving national recognition as one of 2018’s great reads.
![Anais Duplan](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/DuplanAnais_300x225.jpg?itok=6g3F4zT1)
A poem by Anaïs Duplan '14, "Ode to the Happy Negro Hugging the Flag in Robert Colescott’s 'George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware,'" was selected as the January 23 poem-a-day by the American Academy of Poets.
![bennington review issue 4](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/bennington%20review%20issue%204.jpg?itok=CEKf8tsd)
The newly relaunched Bennington Review has released its fourth issue, featuring innovative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing around the theme of “Staying Alive.”
![interior shot of the nc literary hall of fame](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/NC-LIteraryHall_300x225.jpg?itok=EsJppD_h)
Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Jill McCorkle has been selected for a place in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
![Bennington in Winter](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Bennington%20in%20Winter.jpg?itok=eQfBvYZb)
While students embark on Field Work Terms around the country and world, Bennington faculty have come up with a set of reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.
![huffpost logo green and white](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Huffington-Post-Logo_300x225.jpg?itok=VkOIUBkm)
The Sky Is Yours, the debut novel by Chandler Klang Smith ’05 was included in Huffington Post’s list of “60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018.”
![donna howard in the bookstore surrounded by books](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/donna-howard-300x225.jpg?itok=KKkSCThj)
A bookstore started by two Bennington graduates has just celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary, reported The St. Albans Messenger.
![Image of Doug Bauer](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/DougBauer_1200x800_0.jpg?itok=EZrkS3l0)
Retiring faculty member Doug Bauer on teaching and time at Bennington by Keegan Ead and Madeline Cole ’16
![cover of threat bennington review issue three](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/bennington-review-3_300x225_new_0.jpg?itok=jDoJrb0N)
NewPages.com glowingly reviewed issue three of Bennington Review, calling it "an incredibly strong issue put forth by an excellent journal."
![Astro Poets](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Astro%20Poets.jpg?itok=16M_CJDH)
Since creating the viral Twitter account "Astro Poets," which aims to change the way the Internet sees the zodiac, visiting literature faculty member Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky have amassed a collection of more than 194,000 Twitter followers, a monthly advice column for WMagazine and, as they recently announced, a new book deal.
![Academy of American Poets](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/academy%20of%20american%20poets.jpg?itok=IIJIfivC)
Awarded a University & College Poetry Prize by the Academy of American Poets, a poem by Alysse Kathleen McCanna MFA ’15 was recently published on the Academy’s website.
![Robert Browning](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/guthrie_poem_guide.jpg?itok=CMFR12zy)
A poem guide by literature faculty member Camille Guthrie of Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess," was recently published by the Poetry Foundation.
![Frances Revel](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/Frances%20Revel.jpg?itok=WMJTZ56y)
Frances Revel ’17 has won the Aliki Perroti And Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award for her poem “Hymn for the End of Drought.”
!["Bindings Without Boundaries"](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/disorder-press_300x225_0.jpg?itok=DK4KcZQ5)
Disorder Press, co-founded by Joseph Grantham '16, published Memory Foam by Adam Soldofsky, which won a 2017 American Book Award.
![Remembering Judith Jones](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/judith-jones_300x225.jpg?itok=tEPfOemU)
Judith Jones '45, longtime editor at Alfred A. Knopf, who championed the Diary of Anne Frank and the publication of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has died. She was 93.
![Mark Wunderlich is named the new director of the Bennington Writing Seminars](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/WunderlichMark_600x450_0.jpg?itok=fUljsEZ9)
Bennington College announced today that poet Mark Wunderlich has been named the next director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, the College’s MFA program in writing.
!['Bennington Review' Releases Third Issue](/sites/default/files/styles/alumni_story_300x225/public/sources/stories/bennington-review-3_300x225_new.jpg?itok=e0dqWDyx)
Bennington Review has released its third issue, titled Threat.