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 1
Cover art by Raïssa Venables
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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