Benson Teaching

Selected List

*Prescott College: 2011 to Present
Graduate Advisor: Creative Writing

*Toronto New School of Writing: 2010 to present
Broken Form: Refracting the Real in Hybrid Writing
Fearless Poetry: Composing Poems the John Cage Way
Problems and Possibilities of Positionality: Writing From/Away/Without/Toward/Multiples Of/Embodied Within the "I"

*Siena College @ Mt. McGregor: 2010
Contemporary American Poetry

*Skidmore College: 2007
Reading and Writing Poems: The Artist's Responsibility

*NY State Writers Institute: 2006
Writer-In-Residence, Poetry

*Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility: 2005 to Present
Poetry and Poetics

*Capital Region Center for Arts in Education: 2000 to 2010
Teaching Artist, Poetry and Performance

Areas of Interest

Collaborative Writing, Perfomativity, Polyvocality, Visual Poetries, Text Art, Unclassifiability,
Cultural Production and Politics, Cultural Production and Social & Environmental Justice,
Artistic Acts in the Public Sphere, Artistic Acts of Compassion and Confrontation,
Liberation Pedagogy, and Sites of Pressure: Theory/Praxis.