Bennington Review has won the CLMP 2017 Firecracker Award for Best Debut Magazine!
Bennington Review is a stunning re-debut, having previously launched in 1966 and 1978, full of innovative and risk-taking prose and poetry. Its commitment to diverse voices cements its status as a journal to watch. We look forward to seeing what new artists its editors discover. —Maribeth Batcha, Ellen Duffer, Brigid Hughes, and Minna Zallman Proctor
ISSUE THREE: Threat
POETRY
EMILY BROWN
Nightmares
These Days
ANAÏS DUPLAN
- from Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus
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- [You waste]
- [Are you tired. Yes, everyday. You can write]
- [At the school dances, black and white girls shook on the floor.]
SARA SHEINER
Obituary
CHRISTOPHER DAVIS
To Have a Choice
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
- One-Star Reviews of the Taj Mahal
- One-Star Reviews of the Great Wall of China
ADAM DAY
Gift Horse
- MARY RUEFLE
- Chain of Flowers
- Maria and The Halls of Perish
- Dunce
- NATALIE SHAPERO
- Home, Followed by Tall Buildings
- Pennsylvania
NATALIE SCENTERS-ZAPICO
A Crown of Gold Snakes on My Head
CLAIRE WAHMANHOLM
Simon Says
Descent
KAREN RIGBY
- Portrait as Latin American Film Festival Entry No. 37
- Portrait as Matryoshka
SARAH ROSE NORDGREN
The Box My Mother Keeps
Movie Night
JUSTIN RUNGE
Hermitage
GARY MCDOWELL
- History Repeats Itself, as Seen from My Hotel Room Window
JAMES HOCH
Fayum Portrait
JENNIFER CONLON
Five Years Post-Deployment
ELIZABETH ONUSKO
- Fight-or-Flight Is an Imperfect Theory
- Ancestral Home Tour
- ALEXANDRIA HALL
- A Series of Losses
- In the Nets
SARAH MCCANN
Tragedy of the Sheep
GABRIELLE BATES
- Judas Goat
- Repentance Circles Itself Before Sleeping
MATT MILLER
Lieutenant Glahn’s Happy Twin
CYNTHIA CRUZ
Artaud
Innenwelt
CLAIRE HERO
Coyotl Escapes the Weeded Tongue
JESSICA FRANCK
Grapefruit
JENNIFER L. KNOX
Abby Got Out
PETER COOLEY
Spirit Dog Etc.
- Poem For Early Morning, Not an Aubade
CARLIE HOFFMAN
Mime in Anchorage Station
Postcard From Alaska
ERIKA MEITNER
Peregrinus
GHASSAN ZAQTAN
- Damascus 1986
- translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah
- Vehicles in the Dark
- translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah
- PHILLIP B. WILLIAMS
- Maskot #3: For the White Students Next Door Who say “Nigga” When Singing Along to Rap Songs Loud Enough for Me to Hear
NIKKI WALLSCHLAEGER
Jamais Vu State of Mind
Gun Show at the Country Fairgrounds
ANJULI FATIMA RAZA KOLB
AMY LAWLESS
Dolphin Live Birth
KRYSTAL LANGUELL
- from Middlemarch Poems
- June 17
- June 20
- July 21
RACHEL JEPSEN
- 60 Days
- In All Honesty
- KATIE WILLINGHAM Apocalypse/Utopia V
- Algorithm for procedurally Generated Defense Mechanisms
JAKE BAUER
Elegy in Regress
NOAH ELI GORDON
NICK FLYNN
What You Can’t Hear
Balcony
WILLIAM BREWER
- Relapse Psalm
- Today I Took You to Our Oxyana High School Reunion
- Oxyana, West Virginia
MEENA ALEXANDER
Refuge
DANNIEL SCHOONEBEEK
from Record
Only the Lonely
MARLIN M. JENKINS
- Portrait of Hansel and Gretel as Lost Black Family
BRUCE BEASLEY
At the Last Trump
DANA PRESCOTT
Rusted Razor
RICHIE HOFMANN
Die Krähe
ELIZABETH SCANLON
Whole
AMANDA NADELBERG
- from There Have Been Some Days I Didn’t Know Your Name
KIRSTEN IHNS
May I Propose You
- JOHN PAUL DAVIS
- Exit, Pursued by 175 People Performing a Romantic Bollywood Number
ALLY HARRIS
Skim
NAZIFA ISLAM
Without Sanctuary
CHELSEA DINGMAN
- Accident Report: After the Baby Dies at Birth
GARY JACKSON
- holoprosencephaly
- DINA HARDY
- [Dear Motion Line, Dear Future Panel]
FICTION
SU-YEE LIN
A Flock, A Siege, A Murmuration
KATHLEEN ALCOTT
Reputation Management
ELIZABETH ELLEN
- The Woman Had Not Once Written About Ice
SORREL WESTBROOK
Etiquette for Ugly Girls
KIMBERLY GARZA
Uprooting
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
Prepaid Reservation
ELISA ALBERT
The Alternative Weekly
MIRIAM COHEN
A Girl of a Certain Age
LEE UPTON
Visitation
NONFICTION
- BRANDON SHIMODA
- The Woman on the Stairs
- ELIZABETH KADETSKY
- Meditations on Survival
- JOAN CONNOR
- At the Circus
FILM
CLAIRE CRONIN
KRISTI MCKIM
- Glory Fades and Shines: On Rushmore and Empathy
INTERVIEWS
COVER ART
JAKUB GELTNER
Cultural Landscape