Twelve poets from the “Seeing Things” poetry workshop will showcase their work in celebration of their new anthology, “Seeing Things 2.” The reading is free and open to the public.…
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Thank you for the publication of the recent article, “Richards Avenue Gas Explosion Not Over for Residents” by Winchester and Bensen. For local news coverage, it was a masterful piece of work on such a tragedy.…
I want to commend Robert Bensen and Teresa Winchester for their highly informative article about the West End gas explosion in Oneonta.…
Kudos to “Hometown Oneonta” for giving the extra necessary space to tell this ongoing story. Much appreciated.…
I want to thank the writers of the [Oneonta explosion] article for sticking up for Desi [Moan] against all the rumors. It’s not the dead guy’s fault.…
Thank you for publishing the meticulously crafted story, “Richards Avenue Gas Explosion Not Over for Residents,” by Robert Bensen and Teresa Winchester.…
Based on investigative research that drilled deep into granular detail, the article conveyed the cause, course, and aftermath of the tragic explosion with command and clarity.…
Richards Avenue is located in the normally tranquil section of Oneonta known as West End. People seek out housing there due to its solidly constructed single-family units—mostly built in the 1940s, according to realtor Jo Bordinger, who grew up in West End and described it as “an Ozzie and Harriet neighborhood.”…
Waffle, Whicker, and Wujnovich come from different backgrounds and write in distinct voices. Their common thread is their participation in “Seeing Things,” a workshop offered by Bright Hill Literary Center in Treadwell since 2017.…
Bensen's writing has earned awards and fellowships from the National Education Association, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Harvard University.…