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Phillip B. Williams Reads at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2017

Image result for phillip b. williams Phillip B. Williams reads two poems, “Sonnet with a Cut Wrist and Flies,” from his book Thief in the Interior, and “The Blood,” published in Connotations Press: An Online Artifact, at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Thief in the Interior was awarded the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a 2017 Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature (Poetry). Williams is the recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award, 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop fellowship, and is the co-editor-in-chief of the online journal Vinyl. A Chicago native, Williams is currently visiting professor in English at Bennington College.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

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Edgar Kunz Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Edgar Kunz reads “After the Hurricane” (originally published in the Indiana Review) at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Kunz is the author of Tap Out (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His poems have appeared in AGNI, New England Review 36.4, Ploughshares, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Best New Poets 2015 & Best New Poets 2017. He lives in Oakland, California, and teaches  in the low-residency MFA program at Salve Regina University.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

Rosaleen Bertolino

Listen to “The Doll Family” Out Loud

“Barbie lay on the floor, too tall to stand up, too big to fit on any of the furniture. She scared the dollhouse family, who ripped off her head and stewed it for dinner.”

Listen below as Nia Robinson reads Rosaleen Bertolino’s “The Doll Family.” The reading took place on  November 10, 2017, as part of the annual NER Out Loud event at Middlebury College. “Doll Family” was originally published in NER Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017) and is available to read online here.

 

ABOUT THE READER

Nia Robinson ’19 is a junior Sociology major from Chicago. Over the past almost two and a half years, she has served as co-president of the Black Student Union, an opinions editorial board member, AFC student intern and fellow, member of Poor Form Poetry, volunteer at Mary Hogan Elementary School, and loyal viewer of Vermont’s sunsets. When she isn’t speaking, you can usually find her at Crossroads, writing poems or just trying to figure it out. This will be her second time performing in NER Out Loud.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rosaleen Bertolino was born and raised in the Bay Area, where she worked as an office manager for her husband’s electrical business, and she now lives in Mexico. She is co-author of the book The Wandering Mother, and her stories have appeared in the Capra Review, Gravel, Euphony, West Marin Review, and many others. Among her awards are a Marin Arts Council individual artist grant and honorable mention for the James D. Phelan Award.

Read more about NER Out Loud here.

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Jericho Brown Reads at Bread Loaf

Jericho Brown reads poems “Prayer of the Backhanded” from his book Please and “As a Human Being,” winner of the 2017 Lyric Poetry Award, at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. His work, including Prayer of the Backhanded, appears in NER 28.1 and 35.3.

Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in the New York Times and the New Yorker. His first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.  

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

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