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WORD THURSDAYS HOSTED BY SIERRA SANGETTI-DANIELS, FEATURING BRUCE BENNETT NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

April 12, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Bruce Bennett

Bruce Bennett (Aurora, NY) is the author of ten full-length collections of poetry and more than 30 poetry chapbooks. His most recent book is Just Another Day in Just Our Town / Poems: New And Selected, 2000-2016 (Orchises Press, 2017). His first New And Selected, Navigating The Distances, also from Orchises, was chosen by Booklist as “One Of The Top Ten Poetry Books Of 1999.” His most recent chapbooks are Our Rough Beast / The Year of Trump (FootHills Publishing, 2017), and First Reader (Wells College Press, 2017). After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1967, he taught at Oberlin College from 1967-70, where he co-founded and served as an editor of Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. In 1970, he co-founded and served as an editor of Ploughshares. In 1973, he began teaching at Wells College in Aurora, NY, where he served as Chair of the English Department, directed the Visiting Writers Series, and helped found and was Director of the Wells College Book Arts Center and Wells College Press. He received a Pushcart Prize in 2012. In 2014, he retired from teaching, and is now Professor Emeritus of English. In 2015, he was the recipient of the first annual Writing the Rockies Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Creative Writing. The website for his latest full-length book, Just Another Day in Just Our Town is www.justanotherdayinjustourtown.com.

$3 suggested donation. Students are free.

Details

Date:
April 12, 2018
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Organizer

Bright Hill Press
Phone
607-829-5055
Email
info@brighthillpress.org
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Venue

Bright Hill Press and Literary Center
94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY 13846 United States
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Phone
6078295055
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