Craft Talk with Catherine Barnett

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Poetry at Bennington—Spring 2025
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (Graywolf, 2024); The Human Hours (Graywolf, 2018), which won the Believer Book Award and was a New York Times Best Poetry of 2018 selection; and The Game of Boxes (Graywolf, 2012), which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. A Guggenheim fellow and Whiting Award recipient, she was honored with a 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and The American Scholar. She has taught in the MFA Program at Hunter College, Barnard College, and Princeton University, and currently teaches in NYU's MFA Program and works as an independent editor.