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Just / sit there right now. / Don’t do a thing. Just rest. /
-Hafiz
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Greetings Everyone! Less than a month until the spring equinox. I know that many of you have snow on the ground or odd amounts of rain. Yesterday in Virginia, the temperatures were cold but we had lightening and thunder: late winter surrealism. First there was Liam’s death and memorials, then the residency with candidates, and commemorations and recently, AWP with reunions, readings, discussions and Ed’s rush to surgery. Our community stands strong and stronger. The “Of Interest” is part of our ongoing dialogue with each other. Please 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ALUMNI NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS DEBBIE DANIELPOUR-CHAPEL ’01 sends the following: “I’m being awarded the PEN New England Discovery award in fiction for 2008. The event is on March 3 in Cambridge, MA, where one writer in fiction, poetry and nonfiction is ‘discovered’ by an established writer.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLARK KNOWLES ’05 has won third prize in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open for his story, “Boxville, East Boxville.” The story will be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories: http://www.glimmertrain.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TIM MAYO’s (’04) chapbook, The Loneliness of Dogs, will be published by Pudding House Publications (http://www.puddinghouse.com). Four poems from the chapbook are forthcoming in the spring issue of the online journal, Babel Fruit (http://babelfruit.com). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANDY PRATT ’01 sends the following: “My ‘stage name’ is Andy Pratt. I can't keep track of my work as a singer/songwriter, performing and recording artist, most of which is on display at many websites, including: www.andy-prattt.com
The book which came out of my Bennington experience was a memoir of my life as rich kid rebel, rock star, man among women, and healing evangelist. Its title is Shiver in the Night (from one of my 70’s albums) and it finally got published by www.xlibris.com in 2007. It is available at the following website: http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=36742. My latest news is that I was recently discovered on myspace by a young Cuban/American producer in Miami named Fernando Perdomo, who offered his services to me, and we are in the middle of recording a new album. Its working title is The Snake Charmer and we are very happy with the results so far: www.myspace.com/andyprattlovesyou and www.myspace.com/andyprattagain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FACULTY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS E. ETHELBERT MILLER was recently broadcast on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19128143. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RACHEL PASTAN will be reading from her new novel, Lady of the Snakes: Monday, March 24, 2008
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TERESE SVOBODA reports that The New York Post put Black Glasses Like Clark Kent at the top of their “Required Reading.” http://teresesvoboda.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-york-post-required-reading.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OPPORTUNITIES WILLIAM PIERCE ’03 sends the following: “Just a note to invite you to AGNI’s revamped and redesigned website. All AGNI authors, going back to the beginning of the magazine in print and online, have author pages on the new site, the indexes (Fiction, Poetry, etc.) are now complete from the beginning to the present; and everything’s much easier to find and navigate. Lots of Bennington names there, of course, both alum and faculty, no longer lost in dusty corners. We’ve cleaned house and brought the light in.” http://www.bu.edu/agni/toc/65/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PEN New England
ANNUAL DISCOVERY EVENING
Sam Cornish introduces Zvi Sesling
The Amphitheater
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Catherine Parnell ’00 sends the following: Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 7:00PM
A reception to celebrate the publication of House of Widows will be held at the Pierre Menard Gallery/Lame Duck Books at 10 Arrow Street (around the corner from Harvard Bookstore) immediately following the reading. Hope to see you there! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elaine McFerron
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