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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.
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 ’17 has won the Aliki Perroti And Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award for her poem “Hymn for the End of Drought.”
Disorder Press, co-founded by Joseph Grantham '16, published Memory Foam by Adam Soldofsky, which won a 2017 American Book Award.
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.
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 has released its third issue, titled Threat.
At Length has published two poems by Camille Guthrie, "Family Collection" and "The Other Victorians."
Bennington Review was awarded the Firecracker Award from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses for Best Debut Literary Magazine.
Lambda Literary featured a poem by Trenton Pollard '09 as part of its ongoing weekly poem series.
A poem by visiting literature faculty member Phillip Williams is included in the current issue of the Boston Review.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Safiya Sinclair '10, Lee Clay Johnson '07, and MFA faculty Kathleen Graber.
Visiting literature faculty member Phillip Williams’ debut poetry collection, Thief in the Interior, has been named a 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
For her recently published poetry collection, Cannibal, Safiya Sinclair ’10 has been longlisted for the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
Visiting faculty member Phillip B. Williams has won a Whiting Award for his debut book of poems, Thief In The Interior. MFA faculty member Kaitlyn Greenidge won for her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman.
Catapult—a premier online literary journal—has published Marguerite Feitlowitz's Spanish-to-English translation of a story by Luisa Valenzuela called "Phone Call From Hell." Valenzuela is a major Argentine novelist, short story writer, and the current President of Argentine PEN.
Marguerite Feitlowitz was on a panel at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in February, called "Tipping the Scales: Addressing Gender Imbalance in Literature in Translation,” which was highlighted on Words Without Borders.
Margin notes scribbled throughout Marlene Dietrich’s expansive book collection offer a rare glimpse into the iconic actress and singer’s life, Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10), associate director of Bennington’s MFA in Writing, writes in The New Yorker.
Visiting faculty Phillip B. Williams has won the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his debut poetry collection, Thief In The Interior.
A new literary crime-and-memoir hybrid by Claudia Rowe ’88 dropped recently, earning a spot on New York Post’s “Must Read Books” list and critical praise from Kirkus Reviews and Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl.
LitHub published an article by Summer Brennan '01 called "Notes From the Resistance: A Column on Language and Power."
This Will Be My Undoing, a collection of essays by Morgan Jerkins MFA '16, was included in the The Millions most anticipated books of 2017 list.
Art In Print glowingly reviewed Thorsten Dennerline and Michael Dumanis’ “A Cloud In Trousers,” writing that the “clouds, sky, [and] text….create a rich brew that has...everything to do with the roots of poetry.”
A poem by Safiya Sinclair '10 was featured on Poets.org as part of their Poem-a-Day series. The series began in 2006 and is "the original and only daily digital poetry series featuring over 200 new, previously unpublished poems by today’s talented poets each year."
Earlier this week, Mashable announced their long lists for several categories of the 2017 PEN Literary awards, which include a number of Bennington graduates.
This month, two alumni had poems featured on Poets.org's Poem-A-Day. The first was "From A Train" by Lynn Emanuel '72, whose book of poem The Nerve of It, was awarded the 2016 Lenore Marshall Prize. The second was an excerpt from "Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus" by Anais Duplan '14, who released his debut collection, Take This Stallion, in June.
Harper's Bazaar published a story on the Literary Brat Pack, featuring Bret Easton Ellis '86, Donna Tartt '86, and Jill Eisenstein '86, all of whom "helped change the course of American literature—and looked great doing it."
Barbara Alfano published an essay on Elena Ferrante’s La Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey, in Stanford’s Arcade in response to Claudio Gatti's exposé of Elena Ferrante’s identity.
Benjamin Anastas' acclaimed memoir Too Good to Be True will be available in paperback on October 25.