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Anniversary Readings

Coast to Coast

October 22, 2018

Lena Tuffaha, Susan Rich, Rick Barot, Martha Silano, Keetje Kuipers, Gabrielle Bates, Eric McMillan

In addition to our “From the Vault” posts, featuring past NER staff introducing gems from the archive, we celebrated our 40th anniversary with two readings this fall, one in Cambridge and one in Seattle. Thanks to the writers who call NER home—and to the beautiful independent bookstores that hosted these events!

On Saturday, October 20, six authors—Lena Tuffaha, Susan Rich, Martha Silano, Keetje Kuipers, Gabrielle Bates, and Eric McMillan—read their work at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, with poetry editor Rick Barot. (pictured above)

On Friday, September 14, four authors—Steve Almond, Mark Clark, Oliver de la Paz, and Kim McLarin—read at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA, with editor Carolyn Kuebler and office manager Elizabeth Sutton. (pictured below)

Kim McLarin, Mary Clark, Oliver de la Paz, Steve Almond
Oliver de la Paz
Kim McLarin
Steve Almond
Steve Almond, Mary Clark, Carolyn Kuebler
Elizabeth Sutton

Filed Under: Events, News & Notes Tagged With: Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Porter Square Books

Public Talk by John Freeman

“Seeing Things”

October 19, 2018

Author and editor John Freeman will give a talk at Middlebury College on Thursday, October 25, at 4:30 pm, in the Axinn Center Abernethy Room, entitled “Seeing Things: On the ethics of place and space in the era of Instagram.”

What does it mean to be where we are, to see it, and to capture and disseminate it? How does seeing things deal with vectors of power, and what stories can’t we see? What kinds of experience needs to be told rather than shown, and how do we incorporate this into our own narratives? In a world of granular detail on reporting, and ever shifting planes of politics, this talk will address issues of sight and empathy, and how literature operates in a world driven by the I/eye. What parts of language have we forgotten?

John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary biannual, and author of two books of nonfiction, The Tyranny of E-mail and How to Read Like a Novelist. He was editor of Granta until 2013. He has also edited two anthologies of writing on inequality, Tales of Two Cities and Tales of Two Americas. Maps, his debut collection of poems, was published by Copper Canyon in fall 2017. He is the executive editor at Literary Hub and teaches at the New School and New York University. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty languages.

Freeman has also recently been named the recipient of the Energizer Award for Exceptional Acts of Literary Citizenship, by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Presented by the Middlebury College Department of English and American Literatures and the New England Review.

Filed Under: Events, News & Notes Tagged With: John Freeman

Mid-Week Break

Kazim Ali Gives Lecture on “Intentional Mistranslation” at Bread Loaf

October 17, 2018

Kazim Ali gives a lecture on “Intentional Mistranslation: Locating the Transnational and Polylingual in Anglophone Postcolonial Writing,” in which he discusses language, borders, identity, and the ways in which translation complicates or is complicated by these concepts.

Ali’s books include several volumes of poetry, including Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre text Bright Felon. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays is Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice.

Ali is associate professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College. His new book of poems, Inquisition, and a new hybrid memoir, Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies, will be released in 2018. He is the translator of books by Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, Mahmoud Chokrollahi, and Ananda Devi, as well as poems by Cristina Peri Rossi, Henri N’Kuomo, Ahmed Faraz, and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. His work also appears in NER 38.1.

 

http://www.nereview.com/files/2018/08/Lecture-Ali-1-1.mp3

 

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NER Out Loud brings the page to the stage

Friday, October 26, 7:30 pm

October 15, 2018

NER Out Loud is back for its fifth run! Join us Friday, October 26th, 7:30 pm, in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theatre for an evening of readings from New England Review. In partnership with the Mahaney Center and Oratory Now, NER Out Loud presents selections from the magazine, read by a talented team of Middlebury students. Sign language interpretation will be included.

And leave room for dessert—students will cap off the evening with a reading of their own work in the Mahaney Center lobby, while you enjoy Middlebury’s finest Indoor S’mores!

This year’s program:

• Melanie Rivera ’19 reading “In Order of Appearance,” a poem by Heather Christle
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 Gillinda James ’21 reading “Dead Weight,” a story by Raven Leilani
• Masha Makutonina ’21 reading the story “Biomass” by Alla Gorbunova, translated from Russian by Elina Alter
• Pele Voncujovi ’19 reading the poem “Don’t tell them we’re going or they’ll want to come too” by Nathan Trantraal, translated from Afrikaans by André Trantraal
• Sam Martin ’19 and Rebecca Berlind ’21 reading “Modal Window,” a story by Janet Towle

Editors and contributors to the student literary magazines will also be on hand at the post-show reception to discuss their publications and read from their recent work. Read more about NER Out Loud.

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Volume 39, Number 4
Cover art by Emilia Dubicki

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