Bennett is a graduate of Harvard and taught for over 40 years at Wells College in Aurora NY.He was co-founder and served as editor of the highly regarded literary journal Ploughshares.He has published 10 full-length collections of poetry and 2 dozen chapbooks. His most recentis a wonderful new collection, Just Another Day in Just Our Town: Poems New & Selected 2000-2016which was published in January by Orchises Press. Bennett will read several poems from this new collectionduring the course of the interview.