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New England Review

Volume 41, No. 4 (2020)

Selections from the Current Issue

Poetry

Sebastián Hasani Páramo

Blood & Breath

Somewhere, years ago, I ate dirt.
Somehow I forgot this dark.
I forgot beginnings. Who recalls
the Earth’s birth? Years go on. 

We become ruins, dust—oblivion.
The first brothers’ wisdom was to kill. . . .

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Fiction

Emily Hunt Kivel

Restful Creatures

The turtles are restful creatures, of course, once you get them fed, cleaned up, lolling about by warm rocks, breathing quietly under the sunlight. They’re restful creatures in general, even in times of duress, which is why I’ve got to be here, and why they’ve got to be here, at the sanctuary near Coconut Grove.

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Nonfiction

Lucien Darjeun Meadows

Circling Eloh: A Meditation

First the war, thousands of miles to the east. No. First other, older wars with forgotten names, unhousing and unhoming the Apache Nation. The Arapaho Nation. The Cheyenne Nation. The Pueblo. The Shoshone. The Comanche. The Kiowa. The Navajo. There is a river run red, there is a lake, there is a world on fire who can never be regained.

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Zack Finch

The Village Beautiful

Something happened to me one summer, four years ago. I was walking up the sidewalk not far from my house, when I saw a shoe lying by the side of the road. . . . It was, as I would later be able to describe it, a wedge sandal with a cork heel, with black canvas straps, and merona printed on the inner sole, size 8½. So what?

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News & Notes

Focus on Emerging Writers

Welcome to NER 41.4

Focus on Emerging Writers

Ending 2020 on a hopeful, forward-looking note, this winter issue presents dozens of new writers.

Readings of work by Jessie van Eerden and John Freeman

New episode of NER Out Loud

Readings of work by Jessie van Eerden and John Freeman

Love in many forms, explored in poetry, essay, and interview.

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News & Notes

Focus on Emerging Writers

Welcome to NER 41.4

Focus on Emerging Writers

December 17, 2020 Filed Under: Featured, News & Notes

The winter 2020 issue of New England Review, shipping now from the printer, is by turns bracing, inspiring, surprising, and devastating. Like every issue of NER, it gives readers a chance to expand their sense of the known world through language, image, and narrative. But what's different is that …
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Readings of work by Jessie van Eerden and John Freeman

New episode of NER Out Loud

Readings of work by Jessie van Eerden and John Freeman

January 11, 2021 Filed Under: Audio, NER Out Loud, News & Notes, Podcast

Courtney Wright, undaunted by distance learning and a pandemic, hosts the NER Out Loud podcast. What can love mean?  The host of this episode of NER Out Loud, Courtney Wright '21.5 brings together an essay and a poem from recent issues of NER, both exploring forms of love that exist outside …
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Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang

December 9, 2020 Filed Under: Behind the Byline, Featured, News & Notes

Sometimes I want to shake the paper and scream at it because whatever I’m working on is giving me the silent treatment. What I’ve learned is to lean into that silence. Photo credit: Margaret Molloy Victoria Chang, author of the "Marfa, Texas" (NER 41.4) and "Obit" series (NER 38.3) talks …
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May-lee Chai

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May-lee Chai

December 4, 2020 Filed Under: Behind the Byline, Featured, News & Notes

Imagine if my grandmother had given up when the Japanese invaded, or when she had to flee her hometown, or when there was nothing to eat, or when the Civil War raged on. I wouldn't be here but for her faith that the future could be better. Bob Hsiang Photography May-lee Chai, author of the essay …
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