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.
Glenn Gaston / Special to The Citizen
Bruce Bennett, Wells English professor and poet, takes the podium at the first reading in a series of Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center poetry readings. Baldwinsville.
Bruce Bennett, Wells English professor and poet, takes the podium at the first reading in a series of Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center poetry readings. Baldwinsville.
“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.”
Bennett said that he writes everyday, and finds inspiration in “just about anything.”
His subjects range from very large and existential topics such as faith and the meaning of life to clever fables that feature a variety of animals.
He writes in many forms, including the more formal sonnets - like those of Shakespeare - and very short couplets.
On Thursday, he read several new poems from many different manuscripts, with much variety.
Excerpts included “Something Like Karma,” which explored eternal recurrence, “Manna,” a prose fable, and “Tantrum at 40,000 feet” - a recounting of a less than peaceful trip by plane.
“Poems create their own realities,” Bennett said.
When asked what advice he would give to aspiring writers or poets, Bennett smiled and confidently said, “If you keep at it and really want to do it, you can, and you will.”
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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.”
Bennett said that he writes everyday, and finds inspiration in “just about anything.”
His subjects range from very large and existential topics such as faith and the meaning of life to clever fables that feature a variety of animals.
He writes in many forms, including the more formal sonnets - like those of Shakespeare - and very short couplets.
On Thursday, he read several new poems from many different manuscripts, with much variety.
Excerpts included “Something Like Karma,” which explored eternal recurrence, “Manna,” a prose fable, and “Tantrum at 40,000 feet” - a recounting of a less than peaceful trip by plane.
“Poems create their own realities,” Bennett said.
When asked what advice he would give to aspiring writers or poets, Bennett smiled and confidently said, “If you keep at it and really want to do it, you can, and you will.”
For more information
The Schweinfurth can be contacted at 255-1553
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