Faculty - Literature
Punks: New and Selected by
A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, Punks weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love.
This year's National Book Award winner in poetry.
Director of Poetry at Bennington, Faculty - Literature
Summer by
The sequence is an exploration of the fantasy of home as well as an exploration of the deep-seated Swedish mythology of summer.
A singular tour de force collection of epistemological, metaphysical poems about summers and daughters and being and despair that seamlessly navigates between English and the poet’s native Swedish.
The Breathing Body of This Thought by
Genya Turovskaya is an American poet, born in Ukraine. This is the first full-length collection of Turovskaya's poetry.
An exceptional highly lyrical and philosophical, deeply questioning debut poetry collection by the Kyiv-born poet and translator.
Triptychs by
Sandra Simonds's TRIPTYCHS is an intersection of poetic form and the passage of time.
This is an amazing, formally innovative new book of wild, discursive post-confessional poems, each written in three skinny adjacent columns juxtaposed on each page. Sandra is visiting faculty at Bennington this year.
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by
Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples. With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time--from Korean comfort women during World War II, to the precipice of climate crisis, to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal.
I am personally so excited to read this latest, brilliantly titled book of poems by the always engaging, startling, and audacious poet and new Bennington literature faculty member Franny Choi!
Associate Director of Academic and International Student Services.
The Hurting Kind: Poems by
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.
I'm grateful Ada Limon recently became Poet Laureate. Her poems do all the things the best poems do, and this book is lovely.