"I want to live more as an atmosphere than an actual person, free of anyone’s impulse to fetishize thwarted desire & call it scholarship." —Miko Nonaka (Miho Nonaka 野中美峰 ルイーズ・グリュック『野生のアイリス』), "Flowers & Acorns" NEW from Issue 13 🪻 benningtonreview.org/thirteen-nonaka

Rain bowing to the weight arc and muscles of naming, action & swerve, are here The crash the roar are here An onomatopoeia of silence welcome here, are here my brood - Ann Waldman's poem for Bernadette Mayer in Bennington Review benningtonreview.org/thirteen-waldm…

so grateful to have poems in the new Bennington Review ! 🫀🫀

"When I was a child I was always touching something the crease in the wall the crease in the man’s face a button to the umbrella which I broke by pressing thirty times in a single day." —Luci Arbus-Scandiffio, "Book of Zippers" NEW from Issue 13 💫 benningtonreview.org/thirteen-arbus…

"I don’t want to say it was all for nothing, but my fear is deeper than my honesty. Nothing scares me more than death. Its vast nothing and absence. An eternity built of nothing and nothing’s impossible opposite" —Eric Tyler Benick, "Negated Sestina" benningtonreview.org/thirteen-benick

Kamala Harris won tf outta that debate. No question. No comment. I just hope she wins the election.

"certainly I am angry I should have tunneled out" —Martha McCollough, "As Far as This World Goes" NEW from Issue 13 ✨

when i was close enough to touch it i could not see my love’s eyes just the holes they sat in          i realized then i don’t want to go inside black but i do want the gray world black creates —Asha Futterman, "In a Cave Where Something Once Happened" benningtonreview.org/thirteen-futte…

The wheat leans in every direction, but has its own life. A field is a private domain—no one knows that, how little of the field is public, how little of it you can really find. —Brian Johnson, "Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1989" benningtonreview.org/thirteen-johns…

I'm so grateful to Bennington Review for publishing "The Fisher-Price of Love." What an appropriate issue for it to find a home in—Family Gathering. benningtonreview.org/thirteen-haseg…

A poem from Tread Upon (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press) is included in the latest Bennington Review. Many thanks to Michael Dumanis & the whole editorial staff for their work on this fantastic issue.

Visit us TOMORROW (Sunday, 9/29) at the Brooklyn Book Festival (BrooklynBookFestival) to say hello and check out our newest issue, Thirteen: Family Gathering. Booth #419 See you there!

I interviewed the great Anne Waldman for the latest issue of the Bennington Review benningtonreview.org/thirteen-inter…

Burying Porcelain Horses (the penultimate poem of my book) is home in Bennington Review

feeling lucky, too, to have a poem in the new issue of Bennington Review - feat. yeats, aquaman, and leela’s literary debut! everyone say congrats leela 🐈‍⬛

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