Portrait of Robert Bensen

Robert Bensen

Robert Bensen is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Before (Five Oaks Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Callaloo, The Paris Review, AGNI, Poetry Wales, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University, the State of New York, and the Illinois Arts Council. He conducts the community poetry workshop at Bright Hill Press in Treadwell, New York, and is the founding director of Woodland Arts Editions, a small literary press. More info at robertbensen.com. (updated 10/2021)

AGNI has published the following work:

Before You Know It

Poetry by Robert Bensen

Two Dancers

Poetry by Robert Bensen

The Garden and the Abyss: Columbus’ Journal and Three Caribbean Writers

Essay by Robert Bensen

The Waves at Matsushima

Poetry by Robert Bensen

Driving the County Blacktop

Poetry by Robert Bensen

AGNI has published the following translation:

Bread, Hashish, and the Moon

Poetry by Nizar Qabbani Translated from the Arabic by Rana Bitar and Robert Bensen
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