RECENT EVENTS
A special Valentine’s Day edition of the NER Vermont Reading Series, “Will Write for Love,” highlights the depth and variety of Addison County’s literary community, with eight local writers — Jennifer Bates, Maya Beres, Karin Gottshall, Carolyn Kuebler, Christopher Ross, Jeffrey David Stauch, Karla Van Vliet, and David Weinstock — at Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, 24 Merchants Row in Middlebury, 7 p.m on Feb. 14.
Jennifer Bates works for Middlebury College in various capacities, including the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and New England Review. She is also on staff at the Vermont Book Shop, where you can purchase her poetry collection, The First Night Out of Eden (University of Florida, 1998), and have her inscribe it with the endearments of your choice.
Maya Beres is currently at work on her first book. After grad school at Columbia she spent her time collecting many odd, and often enjoyable, experiences about which to write. She lives in Bristol with her teenage son.
Karin Gottshallis the author of the book Crocus (Fordham University, 2007) and of two chapbooks: Flood Letters (Argos, 2011) and Almanac for the Sleepless (Dancing Girl, 2012). Her work has appeared in FIELD, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Middlebury College and serves on the editorial panel of New England Review.
Carolyn Kuebleris managing editor of New England Review and was the founding editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books. Her fiction has appeared in Conduit, Copper Nickel, and Sleepingfish, and her essays and reviews have appeared in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. She’s at work on a novella and a collection of stories.
Christopher Rossis the coordinator of the NER Vermont Reading Series. An excerpt from his novel recently appeared in the Southern Review.
Jeffrey David Stauchexperienced his first heartbreak in the fourth grade. He’s been bitter ever since. He is the author of Effective Frontline Fundraising (Apress, 2012) and is at work on his memoir, What We’ll Tell Them When We’re Happy. He works for Middlebury College, and has a pet rabbit. You can read his creative nonfiction at americancatharsis.wordpress.com.
Karla Van Vliet,poet, artist, and archetypal dreamwork therapist, lives in the land she loves and from which the imagery of her language emerges, the Champlain Valley of Vermont. She received her MFA from Vermont College and her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Painted Bride Quarterly, Avocet, The Dry Creek Review, Many Mountains Moving, and elsewhere.
David Weinstock’s poems have appeared in Burlington Poetry Journal, Snakeskin, Stonehenge, The Lyric, Modern Haiku, Moment, Salt River Review and Blue Angel Landing. He is cofounder of the Spring Street Poets, leads the Otter Creek Poets open workshop, and has taught for the Poetry Society of Vermont and the League of Vermont Writers. Since 1983, all of his love poems have been for Ann.
WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT?
Janice Obuchowski
Sponsored by the New England Review, with support from Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, the Vermont Book Shop, and Middlebury Community TV, the NER Vermont Reading Series provides an opportunity for Vermont writers to read their work in front of an audience, and to acquaint local audiences with the talented writers who live and work among us. The series presents not only authors who’ve published in the New England Review and elsewhere, but also those just starting out, who may be unpublished and reading their work for the first time.
That Vermont is home to more writers per capita than any other state in the nation is a testament not only to the natural beauty of our surroundings and the possibilities for solitude and contemplation, but also to the great traditions and institutions that support our literary artists when the time comes to share their work. Published by Middlebury College since 1987, New England Reviewis proud of its own tradition of advancing the literary arts, bringing both new and known writers to a national reading public, and endeavors through the NER Vermont Reading Series to help bring about a similar convergence of voices here in our home state.
In our most recent event, Stephen Kiernan, Chloë Joan López, Daniel Lusk, and Neil Shepard read from their work on Thursday, January 19 (2012), 7 p.m. at Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, 24 Merchants Row, Middlebury. This and the November 2011 reading will soon be available online, care of Middlebury Community TV.
Earlier events featured Ellen Dudley, Estela Gonzalez, Sydney Lea, and Leath Tonino (November 2011); David Huddle, Gary Margolis, Janice Obuchowski, and Angela Patten (August 2011); and Kellam Ayres, Castle Freeman Jr., Ted Gilley, and Kathryn Kramer (April 2011).
RECRUITING WRITERS TO PARTICIPATE
David Huddle
Each event in the quarterly NER Vermont Reading Series will feature four or five writers. While we’re looking forward to cultivating our existing Vermont literary friendships, we’re also eager to discover and feature writers who aren’t yet established. We encourage writers who are residents of Vermont and wish to be considered for a reading spot to contact series coordinator Christopher Ross. Send him an email with a sample of your work (about 10 pages, attached as a PDF) and your current town of residence to NER.Vermont@gmail.com.
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