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Archives for May 2016

Middlebury Alumni and Faculty Reading: June 11

May 31, 2016

2016 photo barEach year hundreds of Middlebury alumni make a rare trip back to Vermont for Reunion, and New England Review is pleased to present the writers among them in an annual reading with alumni and faculty authors.

This year brings a range of accomplished journalists, poets, essayists, and novelists. Katherine Arden, Cedar Attanasio, Theo Padnos, Christopher Shaw, and Jeneva Burroughs Stone (pictured above) will read from their work on Saturday, June 11, at 1:00 p.m. Axinn Room 229, Middlebury College. Free and open to the public.

Katherine Arden (2011) has lived and studied in France and Russia, and is the author of the forthcoming novel The Bear and the Nightingale, which will be published by Random House in 2017.

Cedar Attanasio (2011.5) is a journalist who has covered the immigration and politics beats for the Latin Times, as well as protests and soccer fandom during the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro for IBT.

Theo Padnos (1991) will read a short bit from a novel he wrote during a recent spell in prison in Syria. The novel is about crime and punishment in an ISIS-like society. He is also the author of My Life Has Stood a Loaded Gun and Undercover Muslim.

Christopher Shaw, who has taught at Middlebury since 2003, is the author of Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip With the Gods (W. W. Norton, 2000) and a former editor of Adirondack Life magazine. His writing has appeared in the New England Review, the New York Times, and many other periodicals.

Jeneva Burroughs Stone (1986) has published poetry and hybrid essays in Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, Poetry International, Colorado Review, and other magazines, and her collection of linked essays and poems, Monster, is forthcoming from Phoenicia Publishing this fall.

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Cedar Attanasio, Christopher Shaw, Jeneve Burroughs Stone, Katherine Arden, Theo Padnos

NER Classics

W. S. Di Piero | Tuxedo, New York

May 27, 2016

The poem “Tuxedo, New York,” by W. S. Di Piero, appeared in NER 20.4 (1999):

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She looks out and paints the scene
while voices from branches across the lake
flee through the cedars to stop
at the water restless on her easel.
Yellowjackets change the air
around her head. Her paper hat
flies in the wind. Waterbugs draw
circles around lily pads and nothing
is apart from any other thing.

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Filed Under: NER Classics, Poetry

Mid-Week Break

Alan Shapiro reads at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

May 18, 2016

alan-shapiroAlan Shapiro reads his poems at the 2014 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

“Dressing Table”

“Heavy Snow”

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Alan Shapiro was educated at Brandeis University. The author of numerous collections of poetry, Shapiro has explored family, loss, domesticity, and the daily aspects of people’s lives in free verse and traditional poetic forms. He has published over ten books of poetry, most recently Reel to Reel (2014), Night of the Republic (2012), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Prize, and Old War (2008), winner of the Ambassador Book Award.

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New Books by NER Authors

May 10, 2016

Screen Shot 2015-11-10 at 12.19.17 PMAt once gospel and troubadour song, these deeply spiritual and expansively erotic poems are lucid, unflinching, urgent. —Mary Szybist, winner of the National Book Award

A hearty congratulations to NER contributor Derrick Austin on the release of his debut poetry collection, Trouble the Water (BOA Editions, 2016). Trouble the Water is the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Austin’s poetry appeared in NER 34.3-4.

C. Dale Young, former poetry editor of NER, wrote of Trouble the Water: “Skilled with the ability to harness detail and stringent images, Derrick Austin creates a lush and smoldering landscape in which the very soul is tested.”

Austin is a Cave Canem fellow and earned his MFA from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded a Hopwood Award in graduate poetry. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2015, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Paris-American, Memorious, and other journals and anthologies. He is the Social Media Coordinator for The Offing.

Trouble the Water is available from BOA Editions and independent booksellers.

♦

Sam Ligon has mastered the art of capturing the sweet derangement of love. . . his prose is incandescent, absurd, wickedly funny and, in the end, achingly true. – Steve Almond on Wonderland

NER contributor Samuel Ligon has not one but two new books out this month: a new novel, Among the Dead and Dreaming (Leapfrog Press, 2016), and an adult picture book, Wonderland (Lost Horse Press, 2016). He has previously published a novel and a short story collection, and has work in Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Noise: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth, Post Road, Keyhole, Sleepingfish, Gulf Coast, and in NER 30.1.

wonderlandAuthor Pam Houston says of Ligon’s novel Among the Dead and Dreaming, which features a character who has appeared in Ligon’s other work: “Part meditation on modern love’s dark and often unexamined underbelly; part can’t-put-it-down-even-for-a-dinner-break-thriller.”

Wonderland takes the form of a picture book for adults, with illustrations from Stephen Knezovich. Ligon describes it as “full of weird, playful, absurd stories about love and donkeys and bearded ladies and goats and whiskey bosoms and pie and country songs and blackbirds pecking off noses.”

Ligon’s books are available on Amazon, through their individual publishers’ websites (Leapfrog Press and Lost Horse Press, respectively), and will be in bookstores next month.

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44e5d7_078251cad5ed4b20bf688d6bd25a080bVisceral, tender and lyrical, fleet and agile, these poems unflinchingly face the legacies of violence and cultural displacement but they also assume a position of wonder before the world. – 2016 Whiting Award Citation

We are excited to announce Ocean Vuong‘s debut poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon, 2016), out this month. Vuong was the 2012 recipient of the Stanly Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. His poem, “To My Father / To My Unborn Son,” was featured in NER 36.1.

This collection focuses on themes personal to Vuong, including poverty, depression, sexuality, violence, and the personal impact of the Vietnam War, but his poems nevertheless, as Traci Brimhall writes, “restore you with hope, that godforsaken thing—alive, singing along to the radio, suddenly sufficient.”

Night Sky with Exit Wounds is available online.

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Drones, torture, immigration, weaponry, James Bon, King Lear, medical practice, Hinduism, and the sex life of Adam and Eve are but a few of the subjects treated here without any sacrifice of lyric texture or pulse.—Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate

www.randomhouse.comCongratulations to Amit Majmudar on a new book of poetry, Dothead (Knopf, 2016). Majmudar is a novelist, poet, essayist, and diagnostic radiologist, writing and practicing in Dublin, Ohio, where he was named the first Poet Laureate of Ohio. His poetry was featured in NER 27.1.

This poetry collection investigates the formation of identity in the alleged “melting pot” of America by playing with forms both traditional and uncommon. The result is what Publishers Weekly calls “a portrait of humankind that exposes its overreliance on the persuasive strength of fear.”

Dothead is available online.

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O’Connor produces a tale that is overflowing with the rage of human emotion; in its depiction of feeling, the novel is often brilliant, dense in poetry and light on unearned sentimentality.—Kirkus Review512wOV0Wa6L._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_

The striking Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings (Viking Penguin, 2016) is NER contributor Stephen O’Connor‘s debut novel. He is the author of four books and his fiction has appeared numerous times in NER (27.4, 29.3, 33.3) He teaches in the Columbia and Sarah Lawrence MFA programs.

This novel explores the story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in what Karen Russell calls, “a kind of quantum historical novel—simultaneously fiction and nonfiction, rave and particle.” O’Connor uses the unique medium of fiction to explore the costs of the Jefferson and power imbalances that drove so much of history, while giving a fierce and honest voice to Hemings’ story as well.

O’Connor’s striking novel can be found online and at other booksellers.

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51RS2wMs5ML._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_Shrewdly pithy and nuanced, edgy and commiserating, Miller’s poems are beacons.—Booklist‘s Donna Seaman

Congratulations to NER contributor Wayne Miller on the publication of his fourth collection of poems, Post- (Milkweed Editions, 2016). His other books have been named “Best New Book of Poetry of 2009” and recognized by the William Rockhill Nelson Award in 2007. His poetry is forthcoming in NER 37.2.

Post- features a world in the wake of catastrophe, full of painful pasts and hidden danger, grief and uncertainity. Nevertheless, it is a world in which Miller finds “fresh meaning . . . pathos and humor, pain and the beauty of living” (from the publisher).

Miller’s new collection can be found online and in the upcoming issue of NER.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: Derrick Austin

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