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Self StartersBennington alumni make the lives they want and places for others.
By Ashley Brenon Jowett
Ten Years of Grassroots ActivismHow Bennington students empower migrant workers and foster cultural exchange.
By Ashley Brenon Jowett
Notes on ReggieMore than 100 people attended the Ben Belitt Colloquium on Arts and Literary Culture in Tishman Auditorium on Bennington College’s campus on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. They joined panelists Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown, the MacArthur Award-winning novelist Jonathan Lethem ’86, celebrated poet Camille Rankine, and moderator and Bennington faculty member Benjamin Anastas to learn about the life and work of Queer Black poet and essayist Reginald Shepherd ’88, an underrecognized member of the Bennington literary community in the eighties. Below is a piece Lethem wrote for and read at the event.