Written Arts News
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
Valeria Luiselli Interviewed in the New Yorker
Luiselli was interviewed about her story “Predictions and Presentiments,” which is drawn from her upcoming book, Beginning Middle End.
Valeria Luiselli Interviewed in the New Yorker
Valeria Luiselli. Photo by Alfredo Pelcastre
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: 02-16-2026
Upcoming Events
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4/21Tuesday5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
A Reading by French Poet Marie de Quatrebarbes
Followed by a Conversation with her Translator, Aiden Farrell
Tuesday, April 21, 2026Marie de Quatrebarbes will be reading from her book The Vitals (Les Vivres, P.O.L., 2021), recently translated by Aiden Farrell and published by World Poetry, 2025. The Vitals, her debut in English translation, is an elegiac long poem in the form of a fragmentary journal that tracks the loss of a loved one.
5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
Marie de Quatrebarbes is the author of several books of poetry, as well as a novel inspired by the life of Aby Warburg, and the recipient of the 2020 Paul-Verlaine Prize from the Academie Française. Since 2023, she is the co-manager of the French publishing house Éditions Corti. She lives and works in Paris.
Aiden Farrell is a poet, translator and editor. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in poetry and translation, he is the managing editor of Futurepoem, where he has worked since 2018.
Contact: Éric Trudel
E-mail: [email protected]