Benjamin S. Grossberg - Wikipedia
WEBBenjamin S. Grossberg (born 1971) is an American poet and educator. [ 1] Career. Grossberg is the director of creative writing at the University of Hartford and was a professor of literature and creative writing at Antioch College. He is the advisor to the student run literary journal, Aerie.
Benjamin Grossberg: Five Poets Who Changed My Life
WEBApr 14, 2010 · 1. Whitman. I first read “Song of Myself” in 1993. I was twenty-two, living on my own for the first time, in a city a thousand miles from the suburbs where I grew up. Just moved into my first apartment, I shattered one of the painted-shut front windows trying to pry it open and spent the next three days terrified someone would break in.
“Letter to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self” | Broadsided
WEBOct 1, 2022 · Poet Benjamin S. Grossberg: It’s only in the last few years that I’ve gained enough distance from my teenage self to really understand how deeply I was shaped by the violently homophobic society in which I grew up: 1970s and ‘80s New Jersey. I suppose those things closest to us can be hardest to see.
Benjamin S. Grossberg | The Poetry Foundation
WEBBenjamin Grossberg earned a BA from Rutgers University and an MFA and PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. He is the author of the chapbook The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel (2006), winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, and the full-length poetry collections Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (2007) and ...
Benjamin S. Grossberg | 32 Poems Magazine
WEBa pack of them—setting on a young deer, their small mouths at her, suddenly everywhere hanging off by their teeth, ripping until rags of her skin drape from their muzzles. She falls on bent legs, and they mount her flank, snouts at her face, scramble up her. She passes out— only, no, the host says she doesn’t. Pulse stalls,
Had I Been There, Had It Been Me | The Poetry Foundation
WEBHad I Been There, Had It Been Me. By Benjamin S. Grossberg. Always the script, the dramatic comma, the pointed ellipsis, half turn, beat, the exit. itself as punctuation. Let’s say the back wall. of the house fell away: first cracks. down the plaster, then it crumbles. to reveal seventy-five rows of spectators.
Verse Daily: About An Elegy by Benjamin S. Grossberg
WEBBenjamin S. Grossberg was educated at Rutgers and the University of Houston. From 2000 to 2008, he worked at Antioch College in Ohio, where he purchased a small farm and planted the Granny Smith orchard for which his second book was named.
“The Space Traveler’s Moon” by Benjamin S. Grossberg
WEBJul 2, 2013 · Benjamin S. Grossberg THE SPACE TRAVELER'S MOON Tucked behind an obscure gas giant, tiny, shaped like a kidney bean— but I had it registered as mine for a small fee and now have a certificate to hang in the ship and a …
Benjamin S. Grossberg ( of How to Live on Other Planets)
WEBBenjamin S. Grossberg Average rating: 4.21 · 101 ratings · 18 reviews · 12 distinct works How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens by
Benjamin S. Grossberg - Poetry - ConnotationPress.com
WEBAug 19, 2015 · Benjamin S. Grossberg - Poetry. Benjamin S. Grossberg's books are Sweet Core Orchard (U of Tampa P, 2009), winner of the 2008 Tampa Review Prize anda Lambda Literary Award, and Underwater Lengths …