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WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? Dylan Hicks and Kim McLarin both come up against Barry Manilow, Joan Didion, and Akira Kurosawa in otherwise unrelated essays in the new NER. Charles Johnson (interview) and Peter LaSalle (fiction) both revel in the act of reading, and poets Kazim Ali, Martha Silano, and Brian Tierney offer new angles on the origin story. Shipping from the printer this week, NER 38.1 spills over with new poetry, fiction, essays, and translation, with birds’ nests made of hair and pills dissolving in water, with turntables, constellations, annunciations, and almond dessert. “All of which is to say, books, and reading itself, are such absolutely amazing things, no?”
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FICTION
Mary Clark • Perri Klass • Peter LaSalle • Celeste Mohammed • Michael Parker
POETRY
Kazim Ali • Caylin Capra-Thomas • Paul Guest • Cynthia Huntington • Dora Malech • Jennifer Militello • Sarah Pape • Evelyn Reynolds • Sean Shearer • Martha Silano • Adrienne Su • Matthew Thorburn • Brian Tierney • Devon Walker-Figueroa • Javier Zamora
NONFICTION
Thomas Carlyle • Dylan Hicks • Kim McLarin • Nathaniel G. Nesmith • Anne Pierson Wiese • Eric Wilson
TRANSLATIONS
Albert Camus, a radio play, translated by Ryan Bloom
COVER ART
Mattina Blue
New England Review’s Vermont Reading Series is pleased to present fiction writers Glen Pourciau and Genevieve Plunkett, poet Bianca Stone, and Middlebury senior Hannah Nash, representing the student-run Frame magazine. They will all read from their recent work at 51 Main at the Bridge in Middlebury, VT, on Monday, April 17, 7 pm.
This reading is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Light refreshments will be served, and books, cocktails, and other beverages will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public.
Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist, who lives in Goshen, Vermont. She is the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House, 2014), Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours (Pleiades, 2016), and the illustration edition of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012), a collaboration with Anne Carson. Bianca runs the Ruth Stone Foundation & Monk Books with her husband, the poet Ben Pease.
Glen Pourciau, who joins us from Plano, Texas, is the author of two story collections. His new book, View, was just published by Four Way Books. His previous collection, Invite (University of Iowa Press, 2008), won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His stories have been published by AGNI Online, Antioch Review, Epoch, Little Star, New England Review, Paris Review, and others.
Genevieve Plunkett, from Bennington, Vermont, has recently published her second story in New England Review. Previous stories have appeared in Massachusetts Review, Willow Springs, Crazyhorse, and Mud Season Review.
Hannah Nash is a senior at Middlebury College from Boston, Massachusetts. An English and American Literatures major, she is currently writing a series of short stories for her thesis. She is honored to read on behalf of Frame magazine, a handmade staple-bound booklet featuring highlights from a student-led creative writing workshop.
Six students from Oratory Now lit up the stage at Middlebury’s Dance Theatre on Friday, February 24, with poems and prose from the New England Review, and their readings are now available on the NER website.
After the program, the audience gathered in the art center lobby for more readings and a reception, where they browsed copies of NER plus three student publications—Blackbird, Frame, and Translingual—and heard another ten students read their own work from those magazines.
The third annual NER Out Loud program began with a welcome by managing editor Marcia Parlow, who spoke briefly about the program and the New England Review. She thanked collaborators Dana Yeaton, Associate Professor of Theater and head of Oratory Now, and Liza Sacheli, director of the Mahaney Center.
Students readers were Josh Espy ’17, reading Maciej Milkowski’s “The Week of German Cinema,” Ellen Colton ’19, reading Alison Stagner’s “Midnight,” Steven Medina ’17, reading Alex McElroy’s “Endure,” Nia Robinson ’19, reading Franny Choi’s “The Price of Rain,” Melanie Rivera ’19, reading Alia Volz’s “Chasing Arrows,” and Jabari Matthew ’17, reading Cortney Lamar Charleston’s “Still Life with Young Black Woman’s Face Etched into a School Desk.” In an effort to make the event accessible to the deaf community, Eliza Goodhue gave her riveting kinetic interpretations of all the readings in American Sign Language. All selections presented by Oratory Now were originally published by New England Review in 2016.
At the “S’more Readings” reception, NER intern Matthew Blake ’17 welcomed the student magazines and readers. Middlebury students edit and publish a wide range of literary magazines each year. Blackbird is literary arts magazine presenting fiction, poetry, and artwork by students. Frame is a handmade staple-bound booklet featuring highlights from a student-led creative writing workshop. Translingual offers translations by Middlebury students of their own writing, and writing by others, in multiple languages. Student readers from Translingual included Ariana Hernandez ’19, Jeff Holland ’19, Bernardo Andrade ’18, Kian Waddell ’19, and Tamri Matiashvili ’18. Each student from Translingual read their pieces in the original and in translation. Persian, Georgian, and Portuguese were among the languages heard by the packed crowd of students and community members who stayed for the reception. From Blackbird Jordana Solomon ’20, Maria Bobbitt-Chertock ’20, and Matthew Blake ’17 read their work. Elana Schrager ’17 and Daria Cenedella’18 read poems from their work as members of Frame.