Dick Bentley's books are Post-Freudian Dreaming and A General Theory of Desire (above). His fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in over 160 publications and his short story, Crawl Space won the Paris Review/Paris Writers' Workshop International Fiction Award. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry. Before teaching creative writing at the University of Massachusetts he served as Chief Planner for the Mayor's Office of Housing in Boston. He currently teaches memoir writing, food writing, travel and childrens' writing at Holyoke Community College. Phone 413-256-0240 or www.dickbentley.com.
"It's the poet's voice - inquisitive, edgy at times, tender - that gathers these poems together; a voice both innocent and lacerating."
- Clare Rossini
"Bentley has a really first-rate imagination. At times playful, at other times darkly satiric, at still other times empathetic, it's a talent that continually illuminates his work"
W. D. Wetherell, author of The Man Who Loved Levittown, Chekhov's Sister, Morning, and A Century of November.
"Fresh, innovative, quirky, and wise"
Pat Schneider, Amherst Writers and Artists.
"If you ever wondered what John Updike would read like on acid, trip
out with Dick Bentley. He can take you far out and then surprise you
by evoking ordinary life and feeling so unerringly. Flashbacks
