New England Review

Presenting Faculty and Alumni Authors

NER at Middlebury Reunion

New England Review is pleased to present its annual gathering of Middlebury College alumni and faculty authors during Middlebury’s reunion weekend on Saturday, June 10, at 2:30 p.m. Axinn Center, Room 229, Middlebury College. In addition to featuring Middlebury College President Laurie Patton, who will read from her poetry and translations, this year brings a range of accomplished alumni. Serena Crawford, Henriette Lazaridis, James Moore, and Daniel Robb will read from their poems, stories, and essays. Vermont Book Shop will be on hand to sell books. Free and open to the public.

Serena Crawford’s story collection, Here Among Strangers, won the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and was published by Willow Springs Books and Lost Horse Press in 2016. Her work has appeared in Epoch, Ascent, Beloit Fiction Journal, McNeese Review, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in English from Middlebury College and an MFA from the University of Oregon. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and an Oregon Literary Fellowship, she recently moved from Portland, Oregon, to Madison, Connecticut.

Henriette Lazaridis‘s debut novel, The Clover House, was published by Ballantine Books in 2013 and was a Boston Globe bestseller and a Target Emerging Authors pick. Her work has earned a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant and has appeared in publications including ELLE, Narrative Magazine, the Millions, the New York Times online, the Huffington Post, and—to her unending delight— the New England Review. Having taught English at Harvard, she now teaches creative writing at GrubStreet in Boston. She is the founding editor of the Drum Literary Magazine and she runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece. A competitive rower, Lazaridis trains regularly on the Charles River.

James Moore majored in English and dance at Middlebury College and graduated in 2012. He also received his MFA in poetry from Hunter College in 2016, where he teaches composition and works at Four Way Books. He lives in New York.

Laurie L. Patton is the author or editor of nine books and more than fifty articles on South Asian history, culture, and religion, and has translated the classical Sanskrit text, The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics). In addition, she has published two books of poetry, Angel’s Task: Poems in Biblical Time (Barrytown/Station Hill) and Fire’s Goal: Poems from the Hindu Year (White Cloud Press). Patton became the 17th president of Middlebury on July 1, 2015. She joined Middlebury after serving for four years as dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and as the Robert F. Durden Professor of Religion. From 1996 to 2011, Patton served on the faculty and administration at Emory University. Patton began her career at Bard College, where she was assistant professor of Asian religions from 1991 to 1996.

Daniel Robb, a graduate of Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf School of English, has made his living as a teacher, writer, editor, carpenter, and political consultant. His books include Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys and Sloop: Restoring My Family’s Wooden Sailboat, both published by Simon & Schuster. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and two children in a small town where, among other things, he is the Moderator of Town Meeting.

 

Four writers, one night in Middlebury

Monday, April 17, at 51 Main

Nash, Plunkett, Pourciau, Stone

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.

Readings from the Third Annual “NER Out Loud”

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.

Join Us for the Third Annual "NER Out Loud"

February 24, 8 pm, Middlebury Dance Theatre

In partnership with the Mahaney Center for the Arts and Oratory Now, NER is pleased to present the third annual “NER Out Loud” event. Six Middlebury students from Oratory Now will read selected prose and poetry published in NER in 2016. After the show, join us for the “S’More Readings” reception, an opportunity to hear student readers present their original work, collect copies of student publications, and enjoy s’mores and other gourmet treats.

The “Out Loud” readers include Ellen Colton ’19 (reading Alison Stagner’s “Midnight”), Josh Espy ’17 (reading Maciej Milkowski’s “The Week of German Cinema”), Jabari Matthew ’17 (reading Cortney Lamar Charleston’s “Still Life…”), Steven Medina ’17 (reading Alex McElroy’s “Endure”), Melanie Rivera ’19 (reading Alia Volz’s “Chasing Arrows”), and Nia Robinson ’19 (reading Franny Choi’s “The Price of Rain”). Student publications Blackbird, Frame, Middlebury Geographic, and Translingual will be featured at the “S’More Readings” reception.

Please join us on Friday, February 24, at 8 PM in the Dance Theatre in the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts. The reception will take place directly outside the theater immediately following the main performance. Admission is free, and all are welcome!

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