Join us on Tuesday, March 31, at 8:00 PM ET for a virtual reading celebrating the six finalists for the 2026 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers. Featuring Michael Carson, Joel Cuthbertson, Tom DeBeauchamp, Abigail Dembo, Maja Lukic, & Paul S. Ukrainets.

The apple tree hangs full of issues
my child has issues
and I have them, such issues
huge problems, or pompoms
hard problems dead persons and field flowers
the wars too are hard foreign fields
we take some pomme-bombing
the apples falling hard then hardly
softly pommelling the earth they do not conquer
I am not in therapy or a territory
clonk bop thump plop

—translated by Iain Galbraith

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