Poetry at Bennington presents Catherine Barnett and Bianca Stone
Schedule
Wed May 07 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Tishman Lecture Hall, Bennington College | North Bennington, VT
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Poetry reading and book signing with Catherine Barnett and Bianca Stone.Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (Graywolf, 2024); The Human Hours (Graywolf, 2018), which won the Believer Book Award and was a New York Times Best Poetry of 2018 selection; and The Game of Boxes (Graywolf, 2012), which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. A Guggenheim fellow and Whiting Award recipient, she was honored with a 2022 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and The American Scholar. She has taught in the MFA Program at Hunter College, Barnard College, and Princeton University, and currently teaches in NYU's MFA Program and works as an independent editor.
Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), which won the Vermont Book Award in Poetry; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018); Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books, 2014); and the forthcoming The Near and Distant World (Tin House, 2026). She collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick, Carson’s translation of Antigone (New Directions, 2012) and also published a book of hybrid poetry comics, Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours, in Pleiades Press’s Visual Poetry Series. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Nation. She teaches classes at the poetry-based nonprofit Ruth Stone House in Goshen, Vermont, where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of the Ode & Psyche Podcast. She is currently serving as Vermont's poet laureate.
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Where is it happening?
Tishman Lecture Hall, Bennington College, 60 Second St, North Bennington, VT 05257, United States,North Bennington, VermontEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
