The roster is now complete for Friday’s special event!

Please join us on Friday, July 14, 7-9 pm at Middlebury’s Kirk Alumni Center, 217 Golf Course Road for the “Poetry Free for All.”

Poet Gwyneth Lewis and her team were grateful for the enthusiastic response to the call for submissions, and have assembled the evening’s lineup as follows. Poets reading will include special guests Martín Espada, Lauren Marie Schmidt, and Laurie L. Patton; Rex Lee Jim, Dariana Guerrero, and Taylor Abasta from the Bread Loaf Teacher Network; visiting Spanish poets Francisco Fayna Ranz, Pedro Ángel Palou, and Jacobo Sefami; and community members Partridge Boswell, Matthew Haughton, Marian Willmott, Jack Mayer, Patricia Dougherty, Jack DesBois, Caitlin Gildrien, Barnaby Feder, Adam Tredesco, and Stefanie Cravedi.

This event will celebrate the power of poetry to shape our communities, and address the question “Who do we want to be?” Poets will read one of their own poems along with a poem by another writer whose work speaks to them.

This one-of-a-kind event is presented by Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, Middlebury Language Schools, and New England Review.

Free and open to the public.

 

On June 10, New England Review welcomed four Middlebury College alumni authors back to campus for a reading of poetry and prose, with current College President Laurie L. Patton.

This eighth annual gathering of faculty and alumni authors featured James Moore (2012), Serena Crawford (1992), Daniel Robb (1987), Henriette Lazaridis (1982), and Laurie Patton, who read from new and recently published poetry. Read more about the authors here, and visit our Facebook page for a photo album.

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.