Further Mention

The name of Ben Bennani '68 keeps cropping up all over the place: Laramie where he teaches English at the University of Wyoming, Hanover where Granite is publishing him, Canada where he appears in Contemporary Literature, and Oxford (England) where his work is printed in the Journal of Arabic Literature. Now he is going farther afield right in his home town of Laramie. With David Lawson, he is co-editor of an unusual magazine, Paintbrush, to appear each spring and autumn at $2, with a circulation of 500, financed by patrons, sponsors, and personal funds. It will publish material regardless of school or style and will welcome submissions from all serious writers (poets, translators, and essayists) with few restrictions on subject matter or length (except the epic). It frowns however, on jingles, sweet rhymes, exhibitionism and a wanton display of Anglo-Saxon monosyllabic obscenities spewed out to exalt a show-off charlatan and to shock the bourgeoisie.

Dartmouth contributors to the Spring include Richard Eberhart '26, Thomas and Vera vance, and Robert Pack '51. Others are W. H. Auden, Robert Creeley, William Stafford W. M. Ransom, Robert Bly, and Sonia Raiziss.

Because Paintbrush is not a campus publication or a university project, it welcomes (starting at $50), expecially among Dartmouth alumni.

The spring edition may be obtained for $2 from Jessie Edminster, Managing Editor Box 3353, University Station, Laramie, Wyoming 82071.