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Four writers, one night in Middlebury

Monday, April 17, at 51 Main

March 27, 2017

Nash, Plunkett, Pourciau, Stone

New England Review’s Vermont Reading Series is pleased to present fiction writers Glen Pourciau and Genevieve Plunkett, poet Bianca Stone, and Middlebury senior Hannah Nash, representing the student-run Frame magazine.  They will all read from their recent work at 51 Main at the Bridge in Middlebury, VT, on Monday, April 17, 7 pm.

This reading is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Light refreshments will be served, and books, cocktails, and other beverages will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public.

Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist, who lives in Goshen, Vermont. She is the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House, 2014), Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours (Pleiades, 2016), and the illustration edition of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012), a collaboration with Anne Carson. Bianca runs the Ruth Stone Foundation & Monk Books with her husband, the poet Ben Pease.

Glen Pourciau, who joins us from Plano, Texas, is the author of two story collections. His new book, View, was just published by Four Way Books. His previous collection, Invite (University of Iowa Press, 2008), won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His stories have been published by AGNI Online, Antioch Review, Epoch, Little Star, New England Review, Paris Review, and others.

Genevieve Plunkett, from Bennington, Vermont, has recently published her second story in New England Review. Previous stories have appeared in Massachusetts Review, Willow Springs, Crazyhorse, and Mud Season Review.

Hannah Nash is a senior at Middlebury College from Boston, Massachusetts. An English and American Literatures major, she is currently writing a series of short stories for her thesis. She is honored to read on behalf of Frame magazine, a handmade staple-bound booklet featuring highlights from a student-led creative writing workshop.

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Monday, October 24: 51 Main at the Bridge

NER Presents Fiction, Poetry, and Translation

September 27, 2016

ner-vt-2016-oct-24-author-bannerNew England Review’s Vermont Reading Series is pleased to present a stunning array of accomplished writers: Jensen Beach and Eugene Mirabelli in fiction, poet Elizabeth Powell, and student translator Bernardo Andrade, representing Middlebury’s Translingual magazine.  They will all read from their recent work at 51 Main at the Bridge in Middlebury, VT, on Monday, October 24, 7 pm.

This reading is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Light refreshments will be served, and books, cocktails, and other beverages will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public.

Bernardo Andrade will read from his translation of a conversation with Brazilian essayist Olavo de Carvalho, which he published in the Middlebury College student magazine of literary translation, Translingual. A Philosophy major from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Andrade speaks English, Russian, and Latin, as well as his native Portuguese.

Jensen Beach is the author of two collections of short fiction, most recently Swallowed by the Cold, published this year by Graywolf Press. His stories have appeared in A Public Space, Paris Review, and The New Yorker. He teaches at Johnson State College, where he is fiction editor at Green Mountains Review. He lives in Jericho with his family.

Eugene Mirabelli, now eighty-five, is the author of nine novels. His first was published in the middle of the last century and his most recent, Renato After Alba, comes out this fall from McPherson & Company. Mirabelli’s short stories have been translated into Czech, French, Hebrew, Russian, Sicilian, and Turkish, and for years he wrote on politics, society, and culture for an alternative newsweekly. He was a co-founder of Alternative Literary Programs, a nonprofit group that brought poets, storytellers, and fiction writers into secondary school classrooms. He is a professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Albany.

Elizabeth A. I. Powell is the author of The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize winner. Her second book, Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, won the Robert Dana Prize in poetry and was published this year by Anhinga Press. She has received Pushcart Prize, a Vermont Council on the Arts grants, and a Yaddo fellowship, and her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She is Editor of Green Mountains Review, and Associate Professor of Writing and Literature at Johnson State College. Born in New York City, she has lived in Vermont since 1989 with her four children.

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Monday, March 14 at 7pm

NER Vermont Reading Series: Jennifer Grotz, Sydney Lea, and Janice Obuchowski

February 23, 2016

Monday, March 14, 7 pm
51 Main at the Bridge
51 Main Street, Middlebury, VT

The NER Vermont Reading Series presents poets Jennifer Grotz and Sydney Lea and fiction writer Janice Obuchowski, who will read from their recent work at 51 Main at the Bridge in Middlebury, VT. This reading is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Light refreshments will be served. Books, cocktails, and other beverages will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public.

Jennifer Grotz’s new collection of poetry, Window Left Open, was just released from Graywolf Press. Her previous collections are The Needle and Cusp. Her poetry has appeared in the New Republic, the New Yorker, and Best American Poetry. She teaches at the University of Rochester and in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College, and is the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

 

sydney leaSydney Lea is the author of a dozen poetry collections, with No Doubt the Nameless just out this spring from Four Way Books. He has also published a novel, a collection of literary criticism, and four volumes of personal essays, most recently What’s the Story? Reflections on a Life Grown Long. He was founder and longtime editor of New England Review, and he currently lives in northern Vermont.

 

Janice Obuchowski has her MFA in fiction from the University of California, Irvine.  She’s served on the admissions board for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and has been a lecturer at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College.  A fiction editor at the New England Review, she has published stories in Gettysburg Review, Passages North, Slice, and Seattle Review. She has also recently completed a novel.

 

 

 

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NER Vermont Reading Series | Monday, November 9

A Reading with Castle Freeman Jr., Kathryn Kramer, and Rebecca Starks

November 2, 2015

The NER Vermont Reading Series and Vermont Book Shop present three writers in three genres: Castle Freeman Jr., Kathryn Kramer, and Rebecca Starks will read from their fiction, memoir, and poetry, respectively, at 51 Main at the Bridge in Middlebury, VT, on Monday, November 9, 7 p.m. This event is free. Light refreshments will be served. Books, cocktails, and other beverages will be available to purchase.

castle-cropCastle Freeman Jr. is a longtime contributor of short fiction to NER, most recently with “Squirrel Trouble at Uplands” (2015). His new novel, The Devil in the Valley, was just released from Overlook Press. He’s the author of four other novels, including All That I Have and Go With Me (coming as a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Julia Stiles), two collections of short stories, and many essays and other nonfiction. His stories have been mentioned or included in The Best American Short Stories and other major collections. He lives in southeastern Vermont.

KramerKathryn Kramer is the author of the recently published memoir Missing History: The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books. She has also published the novels A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space, Rattlesnake Farming, and Sweet Water, and is co-author of a language textbook, Welcome to Vermont: English for Working and Living. Her recent essays have appeared in New England Review and she teaches at Middlebury College.

rebecca starksRebecca Starks’s poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Slice Magazine, Carolina Quarterly, Raintown Review, and elsewhere. Her fiction has appeared in Crab Orchard Review. She edits Mud Season Review, a literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, and teaches literature courses for the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning program at the University of Vermont. She has a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University and a B.A. in English from Yale University, and has sought out writing communities wherever she has lived.

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