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
Volume 35, Number 4
Cover art by Margaret Withers
upcoming events
January 28 (Wednesday) 7:30 pm, Seattle: Hugo House is holding the release party for our new issue. Readers include Kelli Russell Agodon, Kevin Craft, Michelle Peñaloza, Susan Rich, and Christopher Robinson. Poetry editor Rick Barot will emcee.
February 10 (Tuesday) 7 pm, Boston: A celebration of NER with readings by contributors Brock Clarke, Lisa Van Orman Hadley, Matthew Lippman, Lenore Myka, and Alexandria Peary.
February 24 (Tuesday) 7:30 pm, Middlebury, VT: In the tradition of public radio's Selected Shorts, enjoy this evening of original prose and poetry from NER, read aloud by Middlebury College students, with a "s'more readings" reception after the event.
March 10 (Tuesday) 4:30 pm, Middlebury, VT: NER is teaming up with the College Library to host a reading for Please Do Not Remove, with contributors Gary Margolis, David Dillon, and Karin Gottshall.ner digital
Fifth Down: Reading Don DeLillo’s End Zone | Jeff StaigerIt was a thin paperback novel, creased, softened by wear, part of the Penguin series of Contemporary American Fiction, dirty white with big letters hard-shadowed in red: DON DELILLO and below, bigger yet, END ZONE. This was on a gray Saturday morning in Pittsburgh, where I had landed not long before at the end of the 1990s. [Read more]
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