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A price even we New Englanders can love:
four wicked fine lit mags for only $74.99—a 30% discount.
Treat yourself.
Let the reading begin.
#NElitbundle
@NERweb @pshares @AGNIMagazine @Harvard_Review
The New England Lit Bundle is back!
Immerse yourself in a year’s worth of the best reading around.
We’ve bundled up to offer four fine lit mags for only $74.99—a 30% discount.
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Here’s to all our readers on the occasion of our fortieth year; we are grateful to every one of you. No matter how you read NER—on paper or online, from the back to the front, by genre, or out loud to your BFF—we would have no reason to do this without you.
In this issue:
Fiction
Catherine Gammon • Hannah Gersen • Kate Kaplan • Jeff Martin • Merrie Snell
Poetry
Sherwin Bitsui • Oliver de la Paz • Alison Hawthorne Deming • Marilyn Hacker • Terrance Hayes • Didi Jackson • Jessica Jacobs • Joanna Klink • William Logan • Carl Phillips • J. Allyn Rosser • Avia Tadmor • Robert Wrigley • C. Dale Young
Nonfiction
Marianne Boruch • Brad Felver • Charles Mackay • Jay Parini • Joseph Pearson • Anne Whitehouse
Translations
Scholastique Mukasonga (trans. by Melanie Mauthner)
Cover Art
Jeanne Borofsky
Someone always asks me “where are you from” / And I want to say a body is a body of matter flung / From all corners of the universe . . .
Listen below as Pele Voncujovi reads Kazim Ali‘s “Origin Story.” The reading took place on November 10, 2017 as part of NER Out Loud at Middlebury College. “Origin Story” was originally published in NER Vol. 38, No. 1 (2017) and is available to read online here.
Pele Voncujovi ’19 was born in Japan to Ghanaian father and a Japanese mother. His family moved to Ghana when he was nine months old and lived there for most of Pele’s childhood. When he was sixteen, he went to the United World College in Costa Rica for the last two years of high school. Pele was never a big fan of poetry growing up, but after doing Oratory Now, he began to appreciate it a lot more and is trying to challenge himself with this opportunity.
Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian, Iranian, and Egyptian descent. He received a BA and MA from the University of Albany-SUNY, and an MFA from New York University. His books include several volumes of poetry and the cross-genre text Bright Felon. His novels include The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays is Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. Ali is an associate professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College. His new book of poems, Inquisition, and a new hybrid memoir, Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies, will both be released in 2018.
Read more about NER Out Loud here.