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AbiYouness, Grotz, Johnson, Miller, and Phillips

Five NER 42.2 poets read their work aloud.

Philipe AbiYouness reads his poem “When They Cut The Power”: “When they cut the power, / we sliced the cantaloupe in the dark.”
AbiYouness also reads “يا ماما ! for the Empty House,” which touches on the varying forms and magnitudes of loss.
Jennifer Grotz reads “Poem or Story”: “My life from its start / was an expanding middle, my mother’s.”
Jenny Johnson reads “Submission”: “When you tear the top / off a marigold, there are / so many fine, loose strings.”
Wayne Miller reads “Camoufleurs”: “When the boys and I went out / in the woods with our BB guns, / we wore our fathers’ massive / fatigues. We shot each other / from inside our fathers’ / narratives.”
Carl Phillips reads “The Night, the Plan, the Stars,” which in only six lines plunges readers into a dreamlike scene.

New Episode of NER Out Loud

Zach Linge and Celeste Levy

Poet Zach Linge in the forest (left); performer Celeste Levy on stage in the Mahaney Center, Middlebury College

Since live audiences were limited this fall, when our annual NER Out Loud Live program was scheduled, this year we took the staged readings to the podcast format!

Listen here, as Middlebury student actor Celeste Levy reads the poem “Offered as Suddenly a Forest” by Zach Linge.

The reading is followed by a conversation between Celeste and Zach, who talk about the poem from both the reader’s and the writer’s points of view. They explore the origins of the poem’s images, writing during the pandemic, and the shades of truth that poetry can reveal.

“Offered as Suddenly a Forest” was originally published in NER 41.1, along with the poem “Branches.” Both poems can be read online. This episode is hosted by Carolyn Kuebler, Editor of NER.

Visit NER’s podcast page here. You can also subscribe on Apple Podcasts or listen on Soundcloud.

New Episode of NER Out Loud

McKenna Marsden and Madison Middleton

  • Author McKenna Marsden
    McKenna Marsden

Since live audiences were limited this fall, when our annual NER Out Loud Live program was scheduled, this year we took the staged readings to the podcast format!

Listen here, as Middlebury student actor Madison Middleton reads from the short story “Suffering in Motion” by McKenna Marsden.

The reading is followed by a conversation between Madison and McKenna, who talk about the story from both the reader’s and the writer’s points of view, touching on the power of running and what it means to be nonbinary.

“Suffering in Motion” was originally published in NER 40.4. Episode hosted by Carolyn Kuebler, Editor of NER.

Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or listen on Soundcloud.

New episode of NER Out Loud

Readings of work by Jessie van Eerden and John Freeman

Courtney Wright, with a microphone and laptop, records NER Out Loud.
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 the traditional bounds of romance and family.

Jessie van Eerden’s essay “A Story of Mary and Martha Taking in a Foster Girl,” read by Francis Price, is followed by an interview between the podcast host and the author.

Next, Nimaya Lemal reads “Columbine and Rue,” a poem by John Freeman.

This episode was produced and hosted by Courtney Wright, a Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment major in Middlebury’s class of 2021.5.

Listen to the NER Out Loud podcast here, or subscribe on Apple podcasts.

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