NER Out Loud Episode 5: Introducing the Vermont Writers Series

Didi Jackson

May 29, 2019

Episode 5 of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!

Hosted by producer Juliette Luini, this episode is the first in NER Out Loud’s Vermont Writers Series, an ongoing project in which we ask NER authors who live in Vermont to read their own work.

This episode features poet Didi Jackson reading her poems published by NER—”Burning Bush” (spring 2018) and “Brancusi’s Bird in Space” (NER Digital)—along with several poems from her forthcoming collection, Moon Jar (2020).

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NER Out Loud: Episode 3

Heather Christle and Janet Towle

February 1, 2019

Listen in, as three Midd student actors read recent work from NER, animating stories and poems through vocal performances.

Hosted by Megan Job, episode three focuses on two new works that use form and language to illustrate the contemporary condition—interruption, cross-pollination, frustration, and maybe even a little rage.

• “In Order of Appearance” by Heather Christle (NER 39.2), read by Melanie Rivera.

• Excerpts from “Modal Window” by Janet Towle (NER 39.2), read by Becca Berlind and Sam Tompkins Martin.

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Mid-Week Break

Amber Flora Thomas Reads at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference 2018

January 16, 2019

Amber Flora Thomas reads “Self Portrait with Teeth,” published in Third Coast Magazine (2017); “Moment in Which the Self Moves Under Song,” forthcoming in Ecotone (2018); and “The Old Horse” from Connotation Press (2016), at the 2018 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. All three poems appear in Thomas’s new book, Red Channel in the Rupture.

Amber Flora Thomas is the recipient of several poetry awards, including the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize and Ann Stanford Prize. She is the author of Red Channel in the Rupture (2018), The Rabbits Could Sing (2012), and Eye of Water (2005), selected by Harryette Mullen for the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Zyzzyva, Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, and Crab Orchard Review, and in NER 39.3.

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

NER Out Loud: The Podcast

Listen to Poetry on Episode 2

December 10, 2018

The second episode of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!

Hosted by NER intern and lit major Kylie Winger, this episode showcases poems by three well-known and much-loved American poets, read by Middlebury actors and orators.

• “Sweet” by Bob Hicok (NER 37.1), read by Pele Voncujovi
• “Obit—Memory,” “Obit—Music,” and “Obit—Grief” by Victoria Chang (NER 38.3), read by Katie Mayopoulos
• “I Shot a Frog I Shot a Bird” (NER 36.1) by C. K. Williams, read by Will Koch

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