Faculty News
Williams Reads at PrincetonVisiting literature faculty member and poet Phillip Williams will read from his work at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, NJ, on Friday, November 10 as part of Princeton University's C. K. Williams Reading Series.
Writing Seminars Welcomes New Faculty Four new faculty members will join the Bennington Writing Seminars for the January residency: Claire Vaye Watkins in Fiction, Jenny Boully and Doug Bauer in Nonfiction, and Safiya Sinclair in Poetry. In addition, we’ll welcome visiting faculty members Monica Youn in Poetry and Wayne Koestenbaum in Nonfiction/Poetry.
Rave Review for RandichA review in the Hartford Courant of Jean Randich's "The Importance of Being Earnest" highly praised the Connecticut Rep production.
A Marvelous Way to BeginIn The Jerusalem Post, on the occasion of Simhat Torah—the Jewish holiday that marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle—Rabbi Michael Cohen offers an examination of the first reading, calling it "the underpinning of the notion of creatio ex nihilo, God creating the world out of nothing."
"The Poetry of Death"The New Yorker online featured a piece by award-winning poet Donald Hall, MFA Writer-in-Residence, called "The Poetry of Death."