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Sebastián Hasani Páramo

Blood & Breath

January 20, 2021

from NER 41.4
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Photo by USGS on Unsplash

Somewhere, years ago, I ate dirt.
Somehow I forgot this dark.
I forgot beginnings. Who recalls
the Earth’s birth? Years go on.
We become ruins, dust—oblivion.
The first brothers’ wisdom was to kill.
Soil the ground with blood. First breath
taken. Is this blood a curse? I ate it. . . .

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Filed Under: News & Notes, Poetry Tagged With: Sebastián Hasani Páramo

Zack Finch

The Village Beautiful

January 17, 2021

Nonfiction from NER 41.4 (2020)
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Something happened to me one summer, four years ago. I was walking up the sidewalk not far from my house, when I saw a shoe lying by the side of the road. I paused, half-circled, stooped closer. It was, as I would later be able to describe it, a wedge sandal with a cork heel, with black canvas straps, and merona printed on the inner sole, size 8½. So what?

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New episode of NER Out Loud

Readings of work by Jessie van Eerden and John Freeman

January 11, 2021

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.

Filed Under: Audio, NER Out Loud, News & Notes, Podcast Tagged With: Courtney Wright, Jessie van Eerden, John Freeman

Welcome to NER 41.4

Focus on Emerging Writers

December 17, 2020

The winter 2020 issue of New England Review, shipping now from the printer, is by turns bracing, inspiring, surprising, and devastating. Like every issue of NER, it gives readers a chance to expand their sense of the known world through language, image, and narrative. But what’s different is that this issue is almost entirely populated by emerging writers, and for many this is among their first publications.

You’ll find essays about the training of bots, the loss of narrative in farming, land “reclamation” in Colorado, and the possible meanings behind a single lost shoe. Eight short stories explore a sea turtle preserve; the August heat in Austin; a spa in Koreatown, LA; and a women’s shelter in Juarez, Mexico. Also included are fifteen poets, all new to NER; translations by Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez; and cover art by Ralph Lazar.

See the full table of contents here, dig into some samples, and order a print or ebook edition today.

There’s a good chance you’ll read them here first, but we expect you’ll be seeing these writers around again soon!

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Writing this poem was not a commentary on a rivalry between the sister arts—poetry and painting—but more an experiment in the ekphrastic poetic mode.

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