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A Note from the Poetry Editor

Poetry
BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY  The Dragon
AGHA SHAHID ALI  There Is No God But
G. C. WALDREP  Their Faces Shall Be As Flames
PAISLEY REKDAL  Birthday Poem
REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS  The End of Life, a Secret
KHALED MATTAWA  Borrowed Tongue
LAURA KASISCHKE   Executioner as Muse
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI  Boxers in the Key of M
CARL PHILLIPS  Parable
JERICHO BROWN  Prayer of the Backhanded
VICTORIA CHANG  Yang Gui-Fei
DEBORA GREGER  Head, Perhaps of an Angel
MATTHEW OLZMANN  Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion
TOMAS Q. MORIN  Red Herring
JORDAN DAVIS  From the Twentieth Floor
DAVID YEZZI Woman Holding a Fox
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT  Redbud
JENNIFER GROTZ  The Woodstove
GERI DORAN  Tonight Is a Night Without Birds
NATASHA TRETHEWEY Elegy

Fiction
KRISTIEN HEMMERECHTS  Fairytale
  translated by Margie Franzen & Sandra Boersma
PETER LASALLE  He Was Beginning to Wonder
DENNIS MCFADDEN Little Brier
JONATHAN DURBIN  Husbands
LENORE MYKA  Mascots
CHRISTINE SNEED  Clear Conscience
BROCK CLARKE  Transported

Music
J. E. UHL  The Prince of New Orleans Piano:
How James Booker Missed the Boat but Made the Parade

Investigations
ROBERT POGUE HARRISON  The Riddle of Age
VINCENT CZYZ  Collage and the Secret Adventures of Order

Testimonies
NATASHA LVOVICH Sister in Russian, Cousin in English

Observations
ELIZABETH O’BRIEN  Naming Is a Sacred Act Because: A List
ALEXANDRIA PEARY Holes and Walls

Reports from American Places
RICHARD TILLINGHAST  Eastward Bound, Across a Storied Landscape

Rediscoveries
BORIS SIDIS  American Mental Epidemics

Contributors’ Notes

 

Here, with our thanks, are the names of those who gave to NER in 2021, above and beyond the cost of a subscription. We also gratefully acknowledge the National Endowment for the Arts for its support of our 2020 programs, as well as our partners at Middlebury College, including President Laurie L. Patton.

* True Blue donors who have given for a minimum of three consecutive years.

Wilhemina Austin
Gary Bateman*
Holly Beatty Bernene & J. Christopher Bernene*
Hunter C. Bourne III*
Elizabeth L. Finch & Peter G. Coe
Laurence de Looze
Sheldon W. Dean Jr.
Marie & Lee Dixson
Maurene & Stephen Donadio*
Nancy & Jonathan Erickson
Castle W. Freeman Jr.*
Thomas Hummel
Lucy & Simeon H. Hutner*
Ann Jones-Weinstock & David Weinstock*
Joann Kobin
Madeleine B. & George M. Kuckel*
David & Elizabeth Muhlbaum
Charles S. Nelson
Paul Northrup
Anne K. O’Brien*
Larry I. Palmer*
Marcia Pomerance*
Christopher Ross*
Geeta Tewari
Nancy Zafris*
Elizabeth Zogby*

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ere, with our thanks, are the names of those who gave to NER in 2020, above and beyond the cost of a subscription. We also gratefully acknowledge the National Endowment for the Arts for its support of our 2020 programs, as well as our partners at Middlebury College, including President Laurie L. Patton.

* True Blue donors who have given for a minimum of three consecutive years.

Gary Bateman*
Holly Beatty Bernene & J. Christopher Bernene
Kathleen F. & Richard J. Bonnie
Hunter C. Bourne III*
Dina C. Maggipinto & Richard J. Burke
Susan B. & George L. Cady Jr.
Mary Clark*
Stephen Cramer
Kathryn Davis
Nancy & Jonathan Erickson
Castle W. Freeman Jr.*
Virginia A. Rauh & Rollin Mac Gallagher
Anne-Laure Vieille & Anthony L. Giustini
Gwendolyn S. Haley*
Hillary & A. David Hamilton Jr.
Elizabeth S. Hodgkinson
Lucy & Simeon H. Hutner*
Ann Jones-Weinstock & David Weinstock*
Madeleine B. & George M. Kuckel
Sydney Lea
Michael B. Ledbetter
Joan Leegant
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J. Michael Lennon
Anne K. O’Brien*
Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff
Larry I. Palmer*
Marcia Pomerance
India T. Radfar
Christopher Ross*
Michael A. Schiffman
Jay R. Silverman
J. Lea H. Simonds
Christopher Sweet
Alexander L. Taylor III
Geeta Tewari