Every day inspires poet

The Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center held its first in a series of poetry readings Thursday night as local poet Bruce Bennett took the podium. Bennett is currently an English professor at Wells College and the director of the school's creative writing program.

“I've been writing since I was 8 years old,” he said. “My mother wrote poetry, so that got me started.”

Since then, he estimated that he's written several thousand poems, including entire chapbooks and manuscripts, and has published works in magazines, including the “Healing Muse.”