Blair Benjamin

Founder, Studios @MASS_MoCA and the @assets4artists program. Working with artists to make change. And writing stories and poems, too.

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3 bear sightings today, total of 7 bears. Mamas and cubs out in force. And didn’t have my camera ready for any of them. But here’s a pretty view.

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New short story of mine out today in ⁦@gonelawn⁩ 45. It features sharks and rays and other exciting sea creatures. https://t.co/00bajxs5xX

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A new deer figuring things out on Berlin Mountain

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Applications are now open for our Studios at ⁦@MASS_MoCA⁩ Winter/Spring 2023 residencies. Deadline is July 8. Fellowship slots available. Check it out. https://t.co/jQVjHT5FTM

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I’m quarantined with Covid, but a little fiction of mine is out in the world today. Thanks ⁦@kimmagowan⁩ and the whole ⁦@PitheadChapel⁩ team for giving this strange story a home. https://t.co/GUSYfYXlfS

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@siamakvossoughi @PitheadChapel Loved this piece!

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Our May issue is live!

[Fiction]
@siamakvossoughi
@kcrosby313
@amykw
@BlairBenjamin93

[Nonfiction]
@salaylay_c
@loriyeg
@PaulWrites7
@ChezMouse

[Prose Poetry]
@nyitraireka1
Ann Pedone

[Cover]
Emanuela Iorga

https://t.co/KN5wMEmwdA

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@MenInBlazers Pickford at halftime: “Small arms. Full hearts. Can’t lose.”

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@rogbennett, a suggestion for your celebrity penalty shootout idea: teams of 5 celebrity keepers guard the goal simultaneously while professional goalkeepers take turns shooting penalty kicks at them.

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So excited to see brilliant poet and scholar Kevin Young take the helm of this vitally important institution. Thank you, Kevin!

[Director @NMAAHCdirector]

Hello, I am Kevin Young, the director @NMAAHC. Welcome to my official Twitter account. I look forward to having candid conversations with you about African American history and culture. #ANationsStory #APeoplesJourney
Read more about me:https://t.co/oF7zAMC1wM

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Rachel’s work is so great! I encourage folks to check it out.

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Photographer Rachel Sussman's Oldest Living Things series documents Earth’s oldest organisms, such as the stromatolites below.

Learn more about Sussman's work and how she hopes it helps us to see the world differently: https://t.co/u4sXjOjAdW #EarthDay

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Great @nprscottsimon interview with my favorite novelist... Ali Benjamin Explores The Fallout Of The 2016 Election In Her New Novel https://t.co/h3SoSLSHtN

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⁦@alibenj1⁩ in The @guardian suggesting some great contemporary re-workings of classic novels. She’s got one of her own coming soon: “The Smash-Up” — a re-telling of Edith Wharton’s “Ethan Frome”, arriving Feb. 23. https://t.co/i7BHLx44OL

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From a Stuart Dybek collection my family gave me for Christmas:

“What might have been told
was abandoned like excess baggage
and the commonplace has assumed
the mysterious presence
of the lost.”

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Powerful words from @viet_t_nguyen.

So excited that Noor Hindi, an amazing poet acclaimed in the piece, will join us in February for a residency fellowship at the Studios at @MASS_MoCA. @Assets4Artists

[Ambereen Dadabhoy 🪬 @DrDadabhoy]

Must read for today. @viet_t_nguyen speaks truth to liberal silences and erasures.
https://t.co/j45uKIcRLA

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Seems like Santa is encouraging me to leave the house this winter.

Nah.

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Self-promoting shout-out to @TypehouseLitMag and @slc_lumina for including poems of mine in their most recent issues. Two lovely literary journals. Head to their websites to check ‘em out if you’re curious.

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From Troy Jollimore’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”:

What, other than purity and naive hope, could entice corruption and despair into bursting forth to appear so nakedly as what they are?

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“Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.”
—Frank Bidart

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@abbygov When I was 6 I stupidly opened the door in a moving car because I was excited to be arriving at a park. Fell out the door, car ran over my leg, but it was on a sandy surface so it absorbed the impact and did no serious damage, just gave me a great story. Privileged white guy life