Category: Reading Series

Bennington Writers – Poetry

Reading Series

Monday, August 25th – 6pm
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, between Bleecker & West 4th
Subway Stop – West 4th Street

E. Ethelbert Miller is Monday’s featured reader. Joining him will be Elaine Fletcher Chapman, Miriam O’Neal, and Joseph Tobias.

E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. Born in 1950, he grew up in New York City. Miller chairs the board of the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank located in Washington, D.C. And he serves as editor of Poet Lore, the oldest poetry magazine published in the United States. The author of several collections of poetry, Miller has published two memoirs, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (2000) and The 5th Inning (2009). Recently, He has begun hosting and producing the television show, The Scholars, which airs on UDC-TV. Miller has taught at UNLV, American University, George Mason University, and Emory and Henry College. For several years, he was a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars, where he endowed the Annual Poetry vs. Prose Softball Game. Miller can often be heard on National Public Radio.

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Bennington Writers – June Elevens: a classmates reading

Reading Series

Monday, June 30th – 6pm
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, between Bleecker & West 4th
Subway Stop – West 4th Street

Tonight’s four readers are June 2011 graduates of the Bennington Writings Seminars – Alex Dawson, Willa Carroll, Heather Dobbins, and V. Hansmann.

V. Hansmann was raised by wealthy people in suburban New Jersey; growing up to be neurotic, alcoholic, homosexual, and old. In June 2011, he completed a MFA in creative writing at Bennington College, concentrating in nonfiction and poetry. His publishing credits consist of an anecdote in the Metropolitan Diary section of The New York Times and an essay in The Common online. A poem of his recently appeared in the British journal, Structo, and another has been accepted for publication in Subtropics. Since August 2011, Hansmann has hosted a monthly reading series, Bennington Writers, here at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village.

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Bennington Writers – Fiction

Reading Series

Monday, May 26th – 6pm
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street, between Bleecker & West 4th
Subway Stop – West 4th Street

 Alice Mattison will be Monday’s featured reader. Joining her are Julia Lichtblau, Camille Renshaw, and Rita Calderon.

Alice Mattison’s new novel, When We Argued All Night, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her collection of connected stories, In Case We’re Separated, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Connecticut book Award for Fiction. Mattison’s earlier novels include, Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn, The Wedding of the Two-headed Woman, The Book Borrower (a NY Times Notable Book), and Hilda and Pearl. She is the author of three earlier collections of stories, including Men Giving Money, Women Yelling (also a NY Times Notable Book), and a collection of poems, Animals. Her stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Ecotone, and have been reprinted in The Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, and PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Queens College and a PhD in English Literature from Harvard. She lives in New Haven, Conn.
V. Hansmann, host

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