From Nick Flynn’s poem “Swarm” (NER 23.1).
Cosmos. Lungwort. Utter each
& break
into a thousand versions of yourself.
You can’t tell your stories fast enough.
The answer is not one, but also
not two.
current issue
Vol. 34 / No. 2
Cover art by Margaret Withers
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audio highlights
Middlebury College is home to both NER and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. NER posts an audio highlight from Bread Loaf's many readings and lectures as a regular feature on this site. Here are two poems by Jennifer Chang, "There are Too Many Other Birds to Write About" & "The Strangers."-
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