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Rick Barot Reads at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Mid-Week Break

Image result for rick barotRick Barot reads “Girl Carrying Ladder,” first published in Bennington Review, and “The Grasshopper and the Cricket,” first published in Threepenny Review.

Barot, poetry editor for New England Review, has published three books of poetry: The Darker Fall (2002), Want (2008), and most recently Chord, (2015) recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. Chord was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Barot has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs the Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University. In 2016 he received a poetry fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.

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

Mid-Week Break

Robert Cohen Reads at Bread Loaf

Robert Cohen reads the chapter “Roaming Charges” from his novel in progress at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Cohen’s short story “The Fickle Gods” appeared in NER 21.4.

Cohen’s work includes the novels Inspired Sleep, Amateur Barbarians, The Here and Now, The Organ Builder, and a collection of stories, The Varieties of Romantic Experience. His essays and stories have appeared in Harper’s, Paris Review, the Atlantic, Ploughshares, the Believer, and many other magazines. He teaches at Middlebury College and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program.

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

NER Out Loud

Listen to “Take Stock” by Clarence Orsi

There was a time when I attempted to step outside gender, to be the woman in the astro-nautical chef uniform manipulating the translucent box of ideology. Or rather, to be the person. To become interchangeable. To become stock.

Listen below as Sam Martin reads Clarence Orsi’s “Take Stock.” Martin’s reading took place on November 10, as part of the annual NER Out Loud reading at Middlebury College. “Take Stock” was originally published in NER Vol. 38, No. 2 (2017) and is available to read online here. 

 

ABOUT THE READER

Sam Martin ’19 is a double major in Theater and American Studies at Middlebury, originally from Richmond, Virginia. Sam is a firm believer in the power and necessity of art and storytelling, especially now and especially here, and is delighted to be able to experience and share this evening’s selection of writings. He has worked in performance, stage management, lighting design, and directing, and will be appearing next in the Theater department’s production of Will Eno’s Middletown.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clarence Orsi is a Baltimore-based writer and Assistant Professor of English at Cecil College in Maryland. His interests include contemporary and twentieth-century fiction, literary and cultural criticism, urban space, and queer literature, among many others. He has a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His essays and fiction have appeared in publications including the American Literary Review, the Believer, Chicago Review, Cincinnati Review, and n+1.

 

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Jenny Johnson Reads at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Photo by Brooke Wyatt

Jenny Johnson reads her poems “Ladies’ Arm Wrestling Match at the Blue Moon Diner” and “Late Bloom,” both published in In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017), at the 2017 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her work appeared in NER 34.3-4.

Johnson is the recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016–17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Waxwing Literary Journal and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University’s low-residency MFA program.

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

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