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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.

New episode of NER Out Loud podcast

Listen to 4 UK poets

Episode 12 of the NER Out Loud podcast has been released! Created, edited, and hosted by summer intern Simone Edgar Holmes, this episode presents Shazea Quraishi, Seni Seneviratne, Naomi Foyle, and Sasha Dugdale reading their work from New England Review.

From her remote-work home in Charlotte, Vermont, Simone brings together the voices of NER authors from South London, Brighton, Derbyshire, and Sussex, UK.

Listen in as Shazea Quraishi reads “Elegy,” Seni Seneviratne reads “A Girl in the Woods,” Naomi Foyle reads “Made from Fibres Not Readily Penetrated,” and Sasha Dugdale reads “Chair No. 14.” All of these poems and more are available online as part of NER‘s recent feature of 15 contemporary British poets, edited by Marilyn Hacker.

You can stream the NER Out Loud podcast from our website or Soundcloud. Or download from iTunes and subscribe.

New episode of NER Out Loud

George Szirtes, Joannie Stangeland, & Angelique Stevens

photo of Simone with microphone in front of yellow painted farmhouse type wall.
Simone Edgar Holmes hosts the NER podcast

Episode 11 of the NER Out Loud podcast has been released! Created, edited, and hosted by summer intern Simone Edgar Holmes, this episode presents George Szirtes, Joannie Stangeland, and Angelique Stevens reading their own work from New England Review.

From her remote-work address in Charlotte, Vermont, Simone brings together the voices of NER authors from Wymondham, England; Seattle, Washington; and Rochester, New York.

Listen in as George Szirtes reads his poem “English Rain,” Joannie Stangeland reads her poem “Parcel,” and Angelique Stevens reads from her memoir “The Only Light We’ve Got”

You can stream the NER Out Loud podcast from our website or Soundcloud. Or download from iTunes and subscribe.

Listen to NER

Lopez, Lynch, Baker, and Yoon

Cover art of NER 41.1, spring 2020. Bright-colored cover art of a hand-drawn apartment building front, with faces of people, pets, and more, all going about their business.

Four NER authors read their work aloud (NER 41.1).

Robert Lopez on the slurs that punctuated his New York childhood, in “Coming From Nowhere”: “Racists are a creative and prolific people.”
Alessandra Lynch reads her poem “Going”: “Going now to dark, going now to write in the dark / love-cabinet . . .”
Linda Frazee Baker reads her translation of “Little Diary of a Germany Journey,”
by Max Frisch, taking us across the border into Germany in the spring of 1935. “I’ve just crossed over the border, and whenever one of us whose real homeland is language first sets foot on German soil, we feel a peculiar sense of strain . . .”
Emiy Jungmin Yoon reads from her poem “Elsewhere”: “I read that a burro walked into a lake and killed herself / after losing her newborn, and believe in an elsewhere. . . .”

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