EAST ARLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Old Mill Road Recording is thrilled to announce the release of a new music video by Benjamin Lerner of his song "Get Out While You Still Can" in honor ...

“Only One Left,” the penultimate track on Benjamin Lerner‘s 2020 album Clean, begins with a chilling intro. “I’m 27 and half of my homies are dead,” Lerner says ruefully over an ascending progression ...

Benjamin Lerner is a musician with an unusual sound. He is a classical pianist who passionately raps, and his lyrics illuminate his experiences as a recovering addict — he has been clean for five ...

Benjamin Lerner (Musician, Recovering Fentanyl Addict, and Viral Content Creator) Releases New EP, "RUN TOWARDS THE TRUTH," Expanding His National Addiction Recovery Advocacy Campaign PR Newswire EAST ...

“I, too, dislike it.” Inevitably Ben Lerner’s slim book The Hatred of Poetry begins with the opening salvo from Marianne Moore’s 1967 poem “Poetry,” which conveyed (in four crisp, if pointedly clumsy, ...

If he hadn’t learned to rap — quite the “if,” considering he was a white, midwestern teenager at the time — we might not be talking about him decades later. As it turned out, rap changed his life.

In “Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” John Ashbery ‘49 stands in a gallery in Vienna and contemplates the self, both as it appears in a painting by Parmigiano and in his own poetry. Looking at the ...

This month, we’re hearing works along the theme of frost. Today, Caritj reads a poem, “Meridian Response,” by Ben Lerner. Lerner is a poet, novelist, and essayist who teaches at Brooklyn College. He’s ...

In his third novel, “The Topeka School,” Ben Lerner continues to mine his reality much like his debut, “Leaving the Atocha Station” and the luminous followup, “10:04.” This time, Lerner summons more ...

Ben Lerner’s latest novel is the only one he wrote with intention to be a novel. The poet’s first two novels, “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04,” were tied more closely to his poetic work, which ...

THE TOPEKA SCHOOL. By Ben Lerner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 272 pages. $30.99. Ben Lerner opens his third novel, “The Topeka School,” with a funny scene. Adam Gordon, his protagonist (and a dead ...

Benjamin began his musical career as a classical piano prodigy, but faced the depths of addiction by his early twenties, struggling with IV fentanyl, heroin, and crack cocaine abuse. Now sober since ...