Visiting Writer Series Continues with Robert Bensen in November
ONEONTA—Hartwick College’s 2023-24 Visiting Writers Series kicked off on Wednesday, October 11 with Shena McAuliffe of Schenectady, author of “We Are a Teeming Wilderness: Stories” and winner of the 2022 Press 53 Prize for Short Fiction, “Glass, Light, Electricity: Essays,” and “The Good Echo: A Novel.”
Professor Emeritus Robert Bensen will wrap up the fall portion of the series on Wednesday, November 8 with a reading from his seventh book of poems, “What Lightning Spoke: New & Selected Poems.” Bensen directed the writing program at Hartwick College from 1978-2017, during which time he taught composition, poetry, and fiction writing, and literature of the Caribbean, Native America, and the English Renaissance. Bensen's writing has earned awards and fellowships from the National Education Association, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Harvard University.
