NER Vermont at the Marquis Theater

Join us Wednesday, April 11 at 7 pm

March 15, 2018

New England Review’s Vermont Reading Series is pleased to present poets and fiction writers Didi Jackson, Jodi Paloni, Ben Pease, and Layla Santos, in the Marquis Theater Café on Wednesday, April 11. The Marquis Café/Bar, at 65 Main Street, Middlebury, VT, is open at 5 pm; the reading begins at 7 pm.

NER’s Vermont Reading Series is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. Books, beverages, burritos, and other Southwestern dishes will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public.

Didi Jackson’s debut collection of poems, Killing Jar, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press (2020). Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Common, and the current issue of the New England Review. She teaches Creative Writing, Poetry and the Visual Arts, and Twentieth-Century Poetry of War and Witness at the University of Vermont, and serves as the associate poetry editor for Green Mountains Review.

Jodi Paloni is the author of the short story collection They Could Live with Themselves (Press 53, 2016), a 2017 IPPY Silver Medalist, finalist for the 2017 Maine Book Award, and runner-up in the 2015 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. She was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the 2017 Kenyon Review Summer Writing Workshop and an upstreet scholar at the 2016 VCFA Post-Graduate Conference. A freelance writer, teacher, and editor, she serves on the planning committee for the Brattleboro Literary Festival.

Ben Pease is the author of Chateau Wichman: A Blockbuster in Verse (Big Lucks Books, 2017). He is a board member of the Ruth Stone Foundation and is leading the renovations of Ruth Stone’s property in Goshen, Vermont. He is finishing up two other projects, Fugitives of Speech, an epic poem following teenage filmmakers in Ludlow, Massachusetts, and a collection of poetry about the death of his mother. He lives in Brandon with his wife and daughter.

Layla Santos is a senior political science major at Middlebury College. She was raised in the Bronx and Port Chester, New York. As a first generation Dominican-American, she enjoys exploring aspects of dual identity through her creative work.

Join us in Tampa!

NER 40th anniversary reading

February 16, 2018

New England Review celebrates forty consecutive years of publishing new voices in poetry, fiction, and essays with a reading at the 2018 AWP Conference in Tampa, FL. The five featured authors have appeared in NER as early as 1978 and as recently as 2018!

Join us Friday, March 9 at 12 pm, in the Tampa Convention Center (Room 14, First Floor) and hear some of the authors who have distinguished and sustained NER through the past four decades.

Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels. She has been the recipient of the Kafka Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She is Hurst Sr. Writer-in-Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work first appeared in NER 1.2 (1978), under the name Kathryn Ungerer, and as recently as NER 34.1.

Kate Lebo‘s essay “The Loudproof Room,” originally published in NER 35.2, was anthologized in Best American Essays 2015. Her essay “The Unsealed Ear” appeared a year later in 36.4. She’s the author of a cookbook Pie School, and currently at work on her first collection of essays, The Book of Difficult Fruit. She lives in Spokane, Washington.

Cate Marvin is a visiting professor at Colby College. Her most recent book of poems is Oracle (Norton, 2015). She has published her poetry frequently in NER , beginning in NER 19.2 (1998) and as recently as NER 36.1 (2016).

Hai-Dang Phan‘s debut collection of poems, Reenactments, will be published by Sarabande in spring 2019. He is a 2017 NEA Fellow in Literature and the author of the chapbook Small Wars. His work has been published in the New Yorker, Poetry, and Best American Poetry, in addition to NER, most recently in 38.2. He was the 2016 winner of the NER/Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Emerging Writers Award.

C. Dale Young is author of The Affliction, a novel-in-stories, and four collections of poetry, the most recent being The Halo. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, he practices medicine full-time. He first published his poetry in NER 17.3 (1995), and then served as poetry editor for nearly 20 years. A new poem will appear in NER 39.1.

NER Nonfiction Editor on PRI's "Things That Go Boom"

J. M. Tyree talks about music and movies

February 12, 2018

J. M. Tyree gets talking about “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’,” the 1966 Nancy Sinatra hit that Stanley Kubrick uses to great effect in his 1987 film, Full Metal Jacket, but that also shows up eerily in the Vietnam documentary The Anderson Platoon in 1966.

“We’ve just witnessed a living nightmare: a Marine recruit, Private Pyle (Vincent D’Onofrio), has murdered his abusive drill instructor (R. Lee Ermey) before turning his rifle on himself on the training grounds at Parris Island. Blood-spattered bathroom tiles, fade to black. And then…Nancy Sinatra?”

Listen to Josh on Laicie Heeley’s podcast, Things That Go Boom, episode 3, which asks “What Happens When the Military Thinks Outside the Box?” Or head over to his essay for more on “These Boots” and Vietnam films.

Devon Walker-Figueroa Wins NER Emerging Writers Award

February 9, 2018

It is with enormous pleasure that New England Review and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference announce the selection of Devon Walker-Figueroa as the recipient of the fourth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.

Devon Walker-Figueroa, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, serves as Co-Founding Editor of Horsethief Books. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such publications as the New England Review, the Harvard Advocate, American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lana Turner, Narrative, and Tin House’s The Open Bar. She currently lives in Harrison, New Jersey.

Devon will attend the 2018 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as the New England Review Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar.

The NER Award for Emerging Writers provides a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for an emerging writer in any genre. This annual award, which is be bestowed upon a writer who offers an unusual and compelling new voice and who has been published by NER in the previous year, is selected by the NER editorial staff and the BLWC director.

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