New England Review is pleased to present Ryan Kim, April Ossmann, Jay Parini, and Ryan Walsh, who will read from recent work as part of the NER Vermont Reading Series, this Thursday (Jan. 16, 7 p.m.) at Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, 24 Merchants Row, in Middlebury.
Ryan Kim (Middlebury) is a native of Newport Beach, California, a graduate of the Putney School, and a senior economics major at Middlebury. He wrote for Middlebury Magazine and gave a TEDx talk about the Amtrak trip he took around America. His industrial design photography is currently on exhibit at the Burlington Airport. After graduation, Ryan will head west to seek employment on a dude ranch before moving to Mexico to write and teach English.
April Ossmann (West Windsor) is the author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007) and the recipient of a 2013 Vermont Arts Council creation grant. Her poems have appeared widely in such journals as the Colorado Review and the Harvard Review, and in anthologies. The executive director of Alice James Books from 2000 to 2008, she is Editor-in-Residence for the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College and an editing and publishing consultant (www.aprilossmann.com).
Jay Parini (Weybridge) is a novelist, poet, biographer, and critic. His seven novels include The Last Station, Benjamin’s Crossing, and The Passages of H. M. His poetry includes The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems. He has written biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. His nonfiction includes such books as The Art of Teaching, Why Poetry Matters, and Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America. His latest book is Jesus: The Human Face of God. He is Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College.
Ryan Walsh (Johnson) is the author of The Sinks, winner of the 2010 Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest (Midwest Writing Center Press). His poems have appeared in Ecotone; FIELD; Forklift, Ohio; Green Mountains Review; Narrative; and elsewhere. He received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and was a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist in 2011. He is Writing Program Director at the Vermont Studio Center.
Samples from past readings are available at our YouTube channel and on Facebook. To sign up for the NER Vermont email list send your address to NER.Vermont@gmail.com.
Partridge Boswell is the author of the 2013 poetry collection Some Far Country. His poems have been featured recently in such publications as The American Poetry Review, Slice and The Literary Review. A longtime arts advocate, he has served as director of several regional performing arts organizations. Co-founder of Bookstock: The Green Mountain Festival of Words and managing editor of Harbor Mountain Press, Boswell lives with his family in Woodstock, VT.
Michael Collier, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, has published six books of poems, including The Ledge, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, most recently, An Individual History. With Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch, he edited A William Maxwell Portrait. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Foundation and Thomas Watson Foundation fellowships, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001-2004, he teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Maryland and lives in Maryland and Cornwall, VT.
Cleopatra Mathis’s seventh collection of poems is Book of Dog. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies, textbooks, and magazines including the New Yorker, Poetry, and New England Review. Prizes for her work include two NEA fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, the Robert Frost Award, a Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the May Sarton Award, and fellowships from the New Hampshire and New Jersey State Arts Councils. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Post Mills, VT.
Angela Palm is an editor and writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Midwestern Gothic, ARDOR Literary Magazine, Little Fiction, Sundog Lit, Prick of the Spindle, and elsewhere. She is an associate nonfiction editor at The Fiddleback, a literary journal, and co-founder of the Renegade Writers’ Collective, a new writing center in Burlington. Angela is currently working on her first novel and editing a collection of work by Vermont writers, titled Please Do Not Remove. She lives and works in Burlington, VT.
Volume 35, Number 4
