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Brooks Haxton Reads at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference 2018

Brooks Haxton reads his poems, “Mister Toebones, Called in Several Languages the Reaper” and “Tracks Everywhere at Noon” at the 2018 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Haxton is the author of eight books of original poetry, four books of translations from Classical Greek, French, and German, and a nonfiction account of his son’s career in high-stakes poker. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and others, Haxton has taught for more than twenty years in the graduate writing programs at Syracuse University and Warren Wilson College. He lives in Manlius, New York, with his wife, a psychiatrist.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

Mid-Week Break

Susan Bernofsky Reads at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference 2018

Susan Bernofsky reads an excerpt from her translation of  Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear at the 2018 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.

Susan Bernofsky directs the program Literary Translation at Columbia in the MFA Writing Program in the Columbia University School of the Arts. Among her many published translations are retranslations of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha (2006), Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (2014), and Jeremias Gotthelf’s The Black Spider (2013). She specializes in the work of the great Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser—she has translated eight of his books, including Microscripts, Berlin Stories, The Walk, and Looking at Pictures, and is currently writing his biography for Yale University Press.

Bernofsky’s 2014 translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel The End of Days won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, The Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize, the Ungar Award for Literary Translation, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2014 she was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Her previous awards include the 2006 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize and the 2012 Hermann Hesse Translation Prize of the City of Calw, as well as grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the PEN Translation Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Lannan Foundation. She blogs about translation at www.translationista.com. More information at www.susanbernofsky.com.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

 

Mid-Week Break

Megan Mayhew Bergman Reads at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference 2018

Megan Mayhew Bergman reads from her essay which appeared in the Paris Review, “The Feminine Heroic.”

Bergman, Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, is currently the Director of the Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington College, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate students. Previously, she served as the Associate Director of Bennington’s MFA Program. She recently completed a fellowship at the American Library in Paris and wrote an environmental column for the Paris Review.  She is the author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise, Almost Famous Women, as well as a forthcoming novel. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker’s Page Turner, the New York Times, NPR’s Selected Shorts, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Oxford American, and Best American Short Stories 2011 and 2015.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

 

Episode 1: Henry Kearney IV & Anne Raeff

NER Out Loud: The Podcast

The first episode of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!

NER Out Loud animates stories and poetry through vocal performances, celebrating the artistic exchange between text and voice.

Our first episode, hosted by intern Juliette Luini, presents two recent pieces from NER that converge on the themes of art and destruction.

• “Shotgun Elegy,” a poem by Henry Kearney IV (NER 37.3), is read by Will Koch.
• “Chinese Opera,”  short story by Anne Raeff (NER 37.2), is read by Gabby Valdivieso.

Listen and subscribe! 

Future podcasts may include conversations with the readers and authors, snippets from the recording studio, or audio from the annual NER Out Loud live event, held right here in Middlebury, VT.

Special thanks to Dana Yeaton and Oratory Now for their support in the creation and production of these podcasts. 

If you have a favorite piece from NER that you’d like to hear read aloud, contact us at nereview@middlebury.edu.

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