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Mary Ruefle: Erasures, the first solo exhibition of visual work by Vermont State Poet Laureate Mary Ruefle ’74, is currently on view at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum.

Meet faculty member Camille Guthrie, who is teaching The Scriptorium: Love as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Meet faculty member Monica Ferrell, who is teaching Fiction: Beginnings & Endings as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Meet faculty member Michael Dumanis, who is teaching Machines Made Out of Words: How to Read a Poem as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Meet faculty member Manuel Gonzales, who is teaching Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez as part of the Bennington Early College Program. 

Want to read like a Bennington student? Kick off your summer reading with the most checked out books from during the 2020-2021 school year.

By Ashley D. Escobar '22

Intertwining art history and poetry defines Dabin Jeong’s (’21) trajectory at 51�������� through her ekphrastic poems and compulsive fixations. However, her work is not concerned with the overly sentimental––she aims to dismantle, disrupt, and redefine continuously throughout her scholarly endeavors and artistic oeuvre.

Nine students from high schools around the world were selected as winners of 51��������’s 2020-2021 .

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Bennington Writing Seminars alum Albert Abonado MFA '10 and faculty member Phillip B. Williams will receive Creative Writing Fellowships of $25,000. 

Want to read like a Bennington student? Kick off your winter break reading with the most checked out books from during 2020.

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty, staff, and students offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

Bennington Review—a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing housed at 51��������—has released its eighth issue, around the theme of “Fame and Obscurity.”

The Robert Frost Stone House Museum at 51�������� has received two grants to support its operations in the coming year.

As COVID-19 turned schooling remote, Sofia Salusso ’23 and her father worked together to bring weekly story time into students’ homes.

Literature faculty member Phillip B. Williams as a 2020-21 Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Nine students from high schools around the world were selected as winners of 51��������’s 2019-2020 .

Multimedia artist Nigel Poor ’86 and poet Mary Ruefle '74 have been announced as finalists for the 2020 Pulitzer Prizes.

In 2019, undergraduate and Bennington Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 65 books.

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Marguerite Feitlowitz will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500. This Fellowship will support the translation into English of two books  by Chilean poet Ennio Moltedo.

Bennington Review—a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing housed at 51��������—has released its seventh issue, around the theme of “The Devotions.”

While students embark on Field Work Term, an annual work-learning term during which students gain hands-on experience and test their classroom ideas in the world of work, Bennington faculty and staff offer their reading recommendations to keep everyone’s intellectual juices flowing wherever they are.

For Audrey Shulman ’09, the process behind creating , a Hallmark Channel Original Movie, was “professional screenwriting bootcamp.”

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith is a  for the 2019 National Book Awards in Poetry.

At the start of Fall term, 51�������� students celebrated with Student Works, an annual showcase of projects done across disciplines—from poetry and play readings, to musical performances, genetics research, oral histories, and more.

Nine students from high schools across the country were selected as winners of 51��������’s 2018-2019 .

Carling Berkhout '19 is the 2019 Robert Frost Stone House Museum Kilpatrick Fellow.

Spiritual or Mental sloth; apathy by Kathleen Norris '69

Want to read like a Bennington student? Kick off your summer reading with the most checked out books from during the 2018-2019 school year.

The , which recently reopened for its second season under 51��������’s stewardship, has appointed Erin McKenny as its new director.

In Entropy Mag, faculty member Marguerite Feitlowitz shares a personal perspective on writing and literary translation.