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Issue Fourteen: ALL THE WORDS ⭐️ Click the link in our bio to purchase.

Congratulations to Issue Fourteen contributor Natalie Shapero on being Longlisted for the National Book Award! You can check out her poems, "Fox" and "Enough," in Issue Fourteen: benningtonreview.org/store/issue-fo… nationalbook.org/2025-national-…

I still really believe in altruism. I believe it’s possible to give of yourself and expect nothing in return. It’s been the theme of my most unhealthy relationships. -David Stuart MacLean, “The Eighth Wonder of the World” Read the essay in Issue 14✨ benningtonreview.org/fourteen-macle…

Check out Carolene Kurien's poem "Dear Gerald" from Issue Fourteen in the Verse Daily Substack today 🌟 versedaily.substack.com/p/dear-gerald @carolenekurien benningtonreview.org/fourteen-kurien

Check out Mary Ruefle's poem "Hello Rooster" from Issue Fourteen in the Verse Daily Substack today✨ @versedailypoems versedaily.substack.com/p/hello-rooster benningtonreview.org/fourteen-ruefle

The only words they could afford were ugly: daiquiri, colonel, pterodactyl—words that looked worse spelled than they sounded loose-lipped, aching in the teeth. -Lucas Jorgensen, "The Bureau of Words" @LucasLJorgensen From Issue Fourteen💫 benningtonreview.org/fourteen-jorge…

Unfortunately, it only takes one person to change history. -William Ward Butler, "Church of Anthrax" @WilliamWButler Read the rest of the poem in Issue Fourteen💫 benningtonreview.org/fourteen-butler

If you make a promise you can’t keep don’t call it a lie, call it a good faith violation -William Ward Butler, "Keywords" @williamwardbutler benningtonreview.org/current-issue-…

It is only now, as we conspire to end this world, that we can see how right we’ve been. -Rae Armantrout, "Confession" @Raea100900Rae benningtonreview.org/current-issue-…

Stare at the coffee maker like it might offer something more, something you don’t yet suspect. -Rae Armantrout, "Orders" Read the rest of the poem in Issue Fourteen of Bennington Review💫 benningtonreview.org/fourteen-arman…

@JoseHernandezDz's poem from Issue Eight 💫 benningtonreview.org/current-issue-8

Check out this interview with Issue Fourteen contributor, Izzy Casey 🌟

Monet developed a system of lowering a massive canvas into a trench in order to paint the top. Whoever wants can think how I personally probably would’ve instead used the floor and a ladder, but, hey, to each their own. -Natalie Shapero, "Enough" benningtonreview.org

We need your help! The government has abruptly withdrawn Bennington Review's hard-won $10,000 NEA grant to publish innovative, intelligent, and moving literature. Your support in helping us recoup the lost funds would make all the difference. bennington.edu/bennington-rev…

Today's Featured Poem: "My Brother’s Sentences" by Paul Gibbons, from Iss. 13 of the Bennington Review (@BennReview). Read here: poems.com/poem/my-brothe…