Bennington Review

A national print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving prose, poetry, and film writing. BR returned in 2016 after a 30-year hiatus.

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Please help us welcome our newest installment,

ISSUE FOURTEEN: ALL THE WORDS

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We are now open for submissions! Send us your work!

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Bennington Review’s reading period reopens this Monday, January 5th.

For more info, visit: https://t.co/Ll2HyUsSPI

NOTE: If you are waiting to hear back on a current submission, we can confirm that your work is still under consideration and we will reply as soon as possible.

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So excited to announce our 2025 Pushcart nominees!

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Issue Fourteen: ALL THE WORDS ⭐️

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Congratulations to Issue Fourteen contributor Natalie Shapero on being Longlisted for the National Book Award!

You can check out her poems, "Fox" and "Enough," in Issue Fourteen: https://t.co/YT8eRDbYP0

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I still really believe in altruism. I believe it’s possible to give of yourself and expect nothing in return. It’s been the theme of my most unhealthy relationships.

-David Stuart MacLean, “The Eighth Wonder of the World”

Read the essay in Issue 14✨

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Check out Carolene Kurien's poem "Dear Gerald" from Issue Fourteen in the Verse Daily Substack today 🌟
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Check out Mary Ruefle's poem "Hello Rooster" from Issue Fourteen in the Verse Daily Substack today✨ @versedailypoems
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The only words they could afford were ugly: daiquiri, colonel, pterodactyl—words that looked worse spelled than they sounded loose-lipped, aching in the teeth.

-Lucas Jorgensen, "The Bureau of Words"
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From Issue Fourteen💫

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Unfortunately, it only takes
one person to change history.

-William Ward Butler, "Church of Anthrax"
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Read the rest of the poem in Issue Fourteen💫

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If you make a promise you can’t keep
don’t call it a lie, call it a good faith violation

-William Ward Butler, "Keywords"

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It is only now, as we conspire to end this world, that we can see how right we’ve been.

-Rae Armantrout, "Confession"
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Stare at the coffee maker
like it might offer
something more, something
you don’t yet suspect.

-Rae Armantrout, "Orders"

Read the rest of the poem in Issue Fourteen of Bennington Review💫

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@JoseHernandezDz's poem from Issue Eight 💫

https://t.co/m1AD9Y3Fqk

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here's my prose poem "The Centaur" from my book "The Parachutist" @SundressPub and also published in @BennReview & in @versedailypoems

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Check out this interview with Issue Fourteen contributor, Izzy Casey 🌟

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Today's Feature:

In this week's installment of What Sparks Poetry: Read Lloyd Wallace's interview with Izzy Casey.

Read here:
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Monet developed a system
of lowering a massive canvas into a trench in order to paint the top. Whoever wants
can think how I personally probably would’ve instead used the floor
and a ladder, but, hey, to each their own.

-Natalie Shapero, "Enough"

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We need your help! The government has abruptly withdrawn Bennington Review's hard-won $10,000 NEA grant to publish innovative, intelligent, and moving literature. Your support in helping us recoup the lost funds would make all the difference.

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