Written Arts News
Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship
Xie’s fellowship in the category of Poetry is one of 14 fellowships awarded by the foundation this year.
Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship
Jenny Xie, assistant professor of written arts.
During her fellowship, Xie will receive $40,000 in unrestricted funds to devote her time to researching, developing, and writing her third poetry collection, Dead Time, which delves into forms of directionless time, or time untroubled by plot and by imperatives of action. Xie is the author of two other collections of poetry. Eye Level (2018) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. The Rupture Tense (2022) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and a recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Xie has also been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.
The Howard Foundation is an independent agency administered at Brown University. Established in 1954, it awards annual, unrestricted fellowships to promising individuals in selected artistic and academic fields. Past fellows have authored bestsellers, directed Oscar nominated feature-length films, and earned some of the world’s most prestigious honors including Pulitzer Prizes, the Rome Prize, and the Whiting Award. For more information, visit howard-foundation.brown.edu.
Post Date: 06-04-2026
Jenny Offill Receives Dora Maar House Residency
The residency is awarded to outstanding arts and humanities professionals.
Jenny Offill Receives Dora Maar House Residency
Jenny Offill, writer in residence.
The Written Arts Program at Bard encourages students to experiment with their writing in a context sensitive to intellectual, historical, and social realities. Students are encouraged to consider writing as an act of critical and creative engagement, a way of interrogating and translating the world.
Post Date: 04-15-2026
New Book by Bard Writer in Residence Benjamin Hale Featured in Chronogram
“The story really only works as nonfiction,” he told Chronogram. “It’s so weird it wouldn’t be believable as a novel.”
New Book by Bard Writer in Residence Benjamin Hale Featured in Chronogram
Benjamin Hale, writer in residence. Photo by Rachel Collet
Hale will discuss the book in conversation with Ryan Chapman at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck on March 12 at 6 pm.
Post Date: 03-11-2026