Park McCullough is thrilled to collaborate once again with The Bennington Bookshop for another installment of the PMc TALKS series! This time, members and guests will have the chance to meet local authors, Genevieve Plunkett and Camille Guthrie. Both will share excerpts from their most recent collections of writings over wine and charcuterie in an intimate setting on the beautiful Park McCullough veranda.
This PMc TALKS event is sponsored by Park McCullough Historic Governor’s Mansion & The Bennington Bookshop and is free to the public. RSVP Required. To RSVP, See Form Below
or email Jeanne@ParkMcCullough.org or Call 802-379-6342
Complimentary Wine & Refreshments Included!
GENEVIEVE PLUNKETT is the recipient of an O. Henry Award. Her work has also appeared in The Best Small Fictions, and journals such as New England Review, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, The Colorado Review, and Willow Springs. She lives in Vermont with her two children.
Prepare Her tells the stories of young women at the brink of discovering their own power. The crossroads in their lives are not always the obvious kind--divorce, motherhood, coming of age--but sometimes much more private and dramatic. Kitty discovers that her ex-boyfriend has committed a murder; Renee navigates a friendship with Arla, a Jehovah's Witness; Emi realizes that her boyfriend is fetishizing her mental illness; Petra acts recklessly when faced with a client with a gun; and Rachel must grapple with the reality of raising a daughter in a world that she, herself, is still terrified of.
“Dreamlike, atmospheric stories that revel in haunting, protracted tension . . . If art is control and precision, the unbridled life that inspires it is too sweeping and wild to be accurately captured. Yet Plunkett is a writer of such extraordinary power that she’s able to summon the unknowable chaos into a spellbinding story.” —Rachel Yoder, The New York Times Book Review
CAMILLE GUTHRIE is the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, Poem-A-Day, and Tin House, as well as in several anthologies including the Best of American Poetry. She lives in Vermont with her two children.
Diamonds presents a woman in mid-life on the edge. In hilarious and heartbreaking poems. Camille Guthrie writes about the trials and surprises of divorce, parenting, country life - and the difficulties and delights of being alone, looking at art, and falling in love. Witty resilience abounds in these irreverent poems about grief and desire, in which the poet meditates upon gender roles, history, pop culture, and academia.
“The poems in Diamonds were written by a tiger who survived divorce, single motherdom, middle age, and sleepless nights worrying about money, and what clothes to wear, one who knows it could be worse but wants her revenge, which is - surprise - the revenge of an angel who possesses such intelligence, knowledge, charm, and wit that these poems, from Bjork to Bosch, pay us in diamonds and bless us all.”
~Mary Ruefle, Author of My Private Property
