Student Profiles
Keenan Walsh '11 on electric community and figuring out his education
"Bennington challenges you to look at your work on the desk, and then go out and do something with it. Because when it comes down to it, work in a drawer doesn't matter."
Poet Safiya Sinclair '10 plumbs family history through literature
"Mark told me, 'Let's try to go totally wild, break it apart, and say something plainly.' He then gave me the assignment to write a poem that was no longer than 12 lines and contained no adjectives. It really changed the way I felt I could write..."
Dorothy Allen ’09: literature and visual arts
“I was the kid in high school who was writing poems for her science classes. I had fallen in love with biology and literature and visual art, and though I didn’t know how they worked together, I was sure that somehow they did.”
Anna Stallmann ’08: literature and social science
“All writing is creative, and what I like to write about is books. I like to study how writers create the work that they do, and see how things function in novels.”