Bennington Mfa in Creative Writing

Mar 25, 2019 / 4 notes

Picking out your AWP panels? Allow us to suggest one of the 20+ panels featuring our Faculty, alumni and students.

Stop by table #T5020 during the Book Fair and pick up a schedule of events featuring members of the Bennington community.

Mar 8, 2019 / 3 notes

Jill McCorkle, MFA Faculty member in Fiction, recommends:

"Dorianne Laux's 'Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems' is a beauty. It is a chance to revisit her earlier masterful works as well as sink into the new poems under the umbrella of the title. These new poems focus on the life of Laux's mother, a complex portrait that renders one unsure which way to run: into her arms or away from her sharp eyes. It is the journey of a daughter's grief—the grief of her mother's death coupled with a child's longing for what was lost or missing in life. Along with sadness and loss, she finds grace and redemption and love, most notably in objects as simple as her mother's slippers or her old colander: 'Bowl daylight fell through/ onto freckled faces, noon stars on the pavement…'

"Laux is a wonderful story teller, bringing scenes and images to life in ways you will never forget. This is a book I will go back to again and again."

Mar 4, 2019 / 1 note

Mark Wunderlich, Rilke Scholar and Director of Bennington Writing Seminars, will deliver a special seminar for LA friends of the program.

Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the most widely-read German-language poets; his poems speak to the eternal human conditions of grief and longing, of love and faithfulness, and his work meditates on a series of core poetic concerns which we will exploreI in this brief seminar. We will look at five poems from his collected work and discuss the central ideas that animated Rilke's poetry and prose over the course of his lifetime. No advance preparation is necessary for the seminar; texts will be provided for attendees. The seminar will conclude with a series of writing prompts based on Rilkean ideas for getting poems (and prose) started, and keeping them going.

For more information email writing@bennington.edu. Please RSVP by March 20, 2019.

Mar 1, 2019 / 1 note

Clifford Thompson, MFA Faculty member in Creative Nonfiction, recommends THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT.

"David Bradley's 1981 novel 'The Chaneysville Incident' manages at once to be utterly devoid of sentimentality – even harsh at times – and to point ultimately toward hope for racial reconciliation. It is vivid, witty, and honest. I read it years ago and feel like I read it yesterday."

Feb 9, 2019 / 2 notes

"But there are times — especially after I have watched certain romantic movies — when I panic and think my life is all wrong because our last candlelight dinner consisted of cold leftovers during an electrical blackout…"

Judith Hertog (Creative Nonfiction '10) wrote the essay "Against Romance: An Un-Valentine" in The New York Times.

Feb 7, 2019 / 1 note

Donald Hall, former United States poet laureate, and longtime Bennington Writing Seminars writer-in-residence, was deeply involved in our program since the very beginning.

The Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets provides full tuition support to the top #poetry candidate, as identified by Bennington's admissions committee. Apply today for the term beginning in June.

Applications are due Friday, March 1. For more info, visit our website.

Feb 3, 2019 / 2 notes

SAVE THE DATE for LITinPDX, an off-site dance party during AWP19 ! Join us Friday, March 29, from 7-10pm at Friendly House Portland.

The best part? Your favorite writers will drop in on our MC, Patrick Boyle (Poetry '14), to guest DJ. PREPARE YOURSELF for playlists from Hanif Abdurraqib, Eloisa Amezcua, Alexander Chee, and Melissa Febos.

We're thrilled to present this event along with our friends at Catapult, PEN America, and The Southampton Review.

Bennington Mfa in Creative Writing

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