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Gene rarely spoke of his near-kidnapping, largely due to a deep-seated anxiety that it was the most interesting thing to ever happen to him, and that he could have been any latchkey kid . . .
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Cynthia Cruz Poetry
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L. F. Khouri Nonfiction
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Bruna Dantas Lobato Editor's Note
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NER answers frequently asked questions about our craft essay series, “Staging Style.”
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Editorial intern Ruby Salisbury ’27 talks with former NER intern Robert Erickson ’18 about developing a critical vocabulary, adjusting to life post-Middlebury, and the value of humility.
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Browse & shop new books by Avigayl Sharp, Craig Morgan Teicher, Marilyn Hacker, Laura Kasischke, & more.
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“Though ‘The Manifest’ is my poem of Idaho written in Idaho, someone else wrote Idaho long ago. Thus the eponymous poem is not only anonymous but an exquisite corpse, a shared writing of the world . . .”
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Staff reader Dana Lynch speaks with NER 47.1 writer Elizabeth Lee on untranslatable language, the parasocial nature of mukbangs, and crafting a self-conscious point of view in her story “AYCE.”
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Staff reader Thomas Nath talks with poet Ama Codjoe about intimacy, the potency of childhood, and the uses of memory in her sonnet sequence from NER 47.1.
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NER Out Loud Herr Friedrich Drinks Tea
William Pierce reads an excerpt from Mely Kiyak’s Herr Friedrich Drinks Tea in his English translation, and Mely Kiyak reads the same excerpt in the original German. The English translation appeared in NER 47.1 (2026).
