All the waves want to come in at once.
Stars rush toward earth
Every desire has a degree in which angels
lend an ear.
After all, I’m not in the world yet.
The presence of someone has come upon me.
What is the past if I change

-Jason Shinder

Of Interest: May 6, 2008
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Hello All!

It is difficult to measure what we have lost with Jason Shinder’s passing. Of course, we will honor Jason during the June residency. As soon as arrangements are made, we will let you know.

With the residency fast approaching, we move forward with great anticipation and appreciation.

Thank you for sending updates regarding contact information and publications.

Continue to email your news, announcements, updated contact information, opportunities, recommended readings, inspirational quotes, favorite lines and sentences, sightings (natural and otherwise), strategies for surviving the post-Bennington literary life, and declarations of intentions or manifestos.

When you send information, please let me know what variation of your name you would like used in print. Thanks.

Please contact me at EMCFERRON@Bennington.edu.  

I look forward to hearing from you.

With warm wishes,

Elaine

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ALUMNI NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

MARY JANE CLOSE BEAUFRAND’s (’98) first young adult book, Primavera, was published on March 1, 2008 by Little, Brown and Company: http://www.theoutlookonline.com/features/story.php?story_id=120796160582919500.

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CHARISSE COLEMAN ’01 sends the following:

“I just had 2 essays accepted in the same week: The Rambler, dedicated to personal stories (in all genres), published out of Chapel Hill took one and my most recently written essay was picked up by Passages North, out of Northern Michigan University, for Fall/Winter issue.”

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KURT CASWELL ’04 sends the following:

“I just won the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize for a collection of essays currently titled The Best Thing About Marriage is Divorce. My book will be published by the University of Nebraska Press.”

http://www.ashland.edu/academics/arts_sci/english/riverteeth/guidelines.htm  

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CHRISTINE KORFHAGE's (’01) book of poems, We Aren't Who We Are and this world isn't either, has been selected as a finalist by Foreword Magazine for its 2007 Book of the Year Award.

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OONA PATRICK ’01 will be publishing an interview with a Portuguese writer in this summer's Provincetown Arts Magazine.

www.provincetownarts.org  

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JEREMY VOIGT ’06 has poems forthcoming in REED, Talking River Review, and Washington Square. He was a finalist in the 2007-2008 Artsmith Poetry Contest judged by Marvin Bell.

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FACULTY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

ASKOLD MELNYCZUK is interviewed this week by Meeting House: A Journal of New England Fiction: www.newenglandfiction.com/meetinghouse.

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CHRISTINE SCHUTT‘s new novel, All Souls, published by Harcourt, was reviewed on April 9, 2008 by Benjamn Lytal:

http://www2.nysun.com/book-reviews.php.  

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JASON SHINDER died on April 25th, 2008 in his home in Manhattan: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/arts/03shinder.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=jason+shinder+obituary&st=nyt&oref=sl.   

TREE SWENSON sends the following regarding Jason:

The Academy of American Poets has added a little notice about Jason on the homepage of Poets.org. It can't begin to convey who he was or what we've lost, but we can at least make note of this sad passing: http://www.poets.org/.  

We also have a lovely entry on our Lifelines page about a poem by Jason: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/339#jshin.  

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See recent Of-Interest issues:

April 22, 2008
March 12, 2008
February 27, 2008
February 14, 2008

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Elaine McFerron
Alumni Liaison, Writing Seminars
Bennington College
One College Drive
Bennington, VT 05201
emcferron@bennington.edu