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Bennington College

Kate Abbott
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Phillip B. Williams, nationally awardwinning poet and professor of Literature at Bennington College, has published his newest book, Mutiny: a rebellion, a subversion, an onslaught. Press photo courtesy of Bennington College.
Phillip B. Williams
Writing

Phillip B. Williams reforms worlds in ‘Mutiny’

October 8, 2021
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Nationally awardwinning poet Phillip B. Williams has published his newest book, moving through a space where myth and story and lived experience charge the air — a place of persistence, anger and beauty.

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Gints Grinbergs' Mega Varieties sculpture looms like giant dandelions against a blue sky in the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show.
Artwork by Gints Grinbergs
Visual Arts

North Bennington sculpture livens a country town

August 10, 2021
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A man is standing on the platform, looking at his watch — waiting for a train that hasn’t come in 50 years. By the historic station around the corner from the feed store, he’s a sculpture in the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show.

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Awardwinning poet Ross Gay read from his work on a spring day at Bennington College.
Ross Gay / Photo by Natasha Komoda
Writing

Ross Gay’s ‘Unabashed Gratitude’ surges with life

May 16, 2018
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On a spring night in Bloomington, Indiana, Ross Gay is planting young lettuces. Winter has hung on so long, a warm evening feels new — to stand barefoot in a troweled furrow with the air smelling of earth and stems, and peels in the compost pile.

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A hand turns the pages of an open book. Creative Commons courtesy photo.
Photo by Kamil Porembiński
Writing

Phillip B. Williams — Love and sadness in free verse

May 24, 2017
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Bound, it begins. ‘Wasn’t night what lingered where sweat left / salt, where breath touch-expired?’ Bound is the title of the first poem in Phillip B. Williams ‘Thief in the Interior,’ a book that opens with confinement and insistent motion and closes with a movement outward into a changed life.

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Poet Charles Simic is photographed at the City University of New York. Photo courtesy of Charles Simic
Photo by Richard Drew
Writing

Charles Simic hones poetry with spectacle and attention

May 11, 2016
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A man drops his glasses and staggers away, singing — or straps on an accordion to leap a waterfall. Vivid scenes condense here on a spring night, when Charles Simic reads his poetry at Bennington College.

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'Charikar,' from '(Un)Governed Spaces,' an exhibit of text and images inspired by the Shomali region of Afghanistan. Image courtesy of Gregory Thielker.
Gregory Thielker / Bennington College
History

‘Losing Afghanistan’ — Bennington professor releases new book

February 1, 2016
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Istalif is a mountain village known for hand-glazed pottery and fruit trees. It sits north of Kabul on the Shomali desert plain in Afghanistan. Ten years ago Noah Coburn came here for the first time.

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