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Ramona Ausubel Reading at Bread Loaf

May 6, 2013 by
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DSC_0247Ramona Ausubel is the author of No One is Here Except All of Us, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Huffington Post. Her most recent book, A Guide to Being Born, is a collection of short stories.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, One Story, The Best American Fantasy and shortlisted in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading.

Ausubel read an excerpt from her novel No One Is Here Except All of Us at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference on August 20, 2012.

To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

 

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Gary Jackson Reads at Bread Loaf

April 1, 2013 by
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garyjacksonBorn and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Gary Jackson is the author of the poetry collection Missing You, Metropolis, which received the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Tin House, Phoebe, The Laurel Review, The Normal School, Tuesday, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of both a Cave Canem and a Bread Loaf Fellowship. An MFA graduate from the University of New Mexico, Jackson currently teaches at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, and at the low-residency MFA program at Murray State University in Kentucky. He is a contributing poetry editor at Catch Up: A journal of comics and literature, and has been a fierce lover of comics for over twenty years.

Listen to Gary Jackson read from his book of poetry Missing You, Metropolis at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference:

“Nightcrawler Buys a Woman a Drink”

“Emergency”

To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

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Robert Cohen Reading at Bread Loaf

October 1, 2012 by
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Robert Cohen reads a short story at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference on August 14, 2010.

“Our Time with the Pirates”

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To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

Robert Cohen is the author of Amateur Barbarians, as well as three previous novels, The Organ Builder, The Here and Now, and Inspired Sleep, and a collection of short stories. Winner of a Lila Acheston Wallace Reader’s Digest Writers Award, the Ribalow Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and a Whiting Award, he has published short fiction in a variety of publications–including Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review and Ploughshares. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Harvard University, and Middlebury College. He lives in Vermont.

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Nicky Beer Reading at Bread Loaf

August 6, 2012 by
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Nicky Beer reads her poems at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 19, 2011.

“Avuncularity” and “Cardinal Virtue”

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(Poems from The Diminishing House, Carnegie Mellon, 2010.)

To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

Nicky Beer is the author of The Diminishing House, winner of the 2010 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. Her second book of poems, The Octopus Game, will be published in 2014. Her awards include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a Discovery/The Nation award. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver.

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Reginald Dwayne Betts reads his work at Bread Loaf

April 23, 2012 by
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Reginald Dwayne Betts reads his poems at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 15, 2011.

“What We Know of Horses”

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“After, Again,” for the poet’s wife, Terese Betts

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“A Head Full of Feathers”

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To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and father of two sons. The author of the memoir, A Question of Freedom (Avery/Penguin 2009) and the collection of poetry, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), Betts has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, the Open Society Institute, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Warren Wilson College. As a poet, essayist and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Betts writes and lectures about the impact of mass incarceration on American society.

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Rebecca Solnit reads from Infinite City

March 26, 2012 by
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Rebecca Solnit’s writing delights and provokes, from the pages of NER to her most recent book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. Her voice illuminates another layer of her hard-headed intellectualism and her appreciation of beauty, ugliness, and melancholy.

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Click above to hear Solnit speak about the history and subjective experience of film in San Francisco in this excerpt from Atlas, which she read at last year’s Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.

You can hear more readings from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference by downloading recordings here.

 

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Linda Gregerson Reading at Bread Loaf

February 27, 2012 by
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Linda Gregerson reads at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

“The Selvage” was originally published in Poetry

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“Her Argument for the Existence of God” was originally published in PN Review (UK).

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This reading took place August 11, 2010.

To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

Linda Gregerson’s books of poetry include Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin, 2007); Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996), a finalist for both The Poet’s Prize and the Lenore Marshall Award; and Fire in the Conservatory (1982). She is also the author of literary criticism, including Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001) and The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995).

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The Forest read by Jennifer Grotz

January 17, 2012 by
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Jennifer Grotz’s new poems “The Fog” and “The Forest” are published in the current issue of NER, while the web site features audio recordings of Grotz reading these poems at The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. An excerpt from “The Forest”:

There was a little carpet of stream so clogged with leaves

it had stopped being a stream. And such a surfeit of silence,
it had become a kind of sound
to which, for a while, you could pay attention. Though
it’s inaccurate, I want to say it was like staring at a light.
All you could do was sense it; then you had to recover,
by which I mean to wait for everything to grow dim again.
Then the mind was the only flashlight, a little bobbing beam
that would illuminate randomly and too little.

(“The Forest,” read by the author, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2011)

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Talking Fowl with My Father

December 15, 2011 by
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Lori Ostlund, author of the Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection The Bigness of the World, reads Part 1 of her story “Talking Fowl with My Father” at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

“Talking Fowl with My Father” was originally published in NER‘s Vol. 30, #3 (2009). This reading took place in August 2010.

To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

 

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Poetry by Ellen Bryant Voigt

November 17, 2011 by
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NER is pleased to be partnering with the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for Audio Highlights featuring excerpts from readings at Bread Loaf on the NER web site. This reading, by Ellen Bryant Voigt, including the poems “Larch” and “Groundhog,” took place at Bread Loaf in August 2011. To listen to other readings and lectures, visit Bread Loaf’s iTunesU site.

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