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Aditi Machado and Jane Wong

Name: Aditi Machado and Jane Wong
Start: 2022-05-04T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-05-04T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Bennington College

May 4 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Poet and memoirist Jane Wong will join poet and translator Aditi Machado in the Poetry at Bennington series. Press photo courtesy of Bennington College — Photo by Helene Christensen

Awardwinning poet and translator Aditi Machado and poet and memoirist Jane Wong will share their work in the Poetry at Bennington series.

Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist from Bangalore, India. Her second book of poems, Emporium (Nightboat, 2020), received the Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), winner of the Believer Book Award, and a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (Action Books, 2016).

Machado’s work appears in such journals as Chicago Review, Jacket2, Lana Turner, Volt, and Western Humanities Review. A former Poetry Editor for Asymptote, she teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

Jane Wong is the author of the collections How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James Books, 2021), longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). Her memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is forthcoming from Tin House in 2023. Wong’s work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, McSweeneys, New England Review, Poetry, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.

The program is open to the public free in Tishman Lecture Hall. Bennington College requires that all guests be vaccinated and have the appropriate vaccine booster. To enter into a building on campus, guests are asked to complete a visitor form—ideally 24 hours before their arrival. Visitors who have not completed this form will be asked to show their vaccination card before entering any campus buildings. Masking indoors is required in any shared spaces.

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