Episode 8 of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!
In Episode 8, interns Rahat Huda and Leila Markosian host readings of the poem “Lark” by Corey Marks and of Noah Bogdonoff‘s short story “Indoor Animals.” These two pieces consider life and death and hope and fear, by way of a simple stone and an orphaned fawn.
NER is excited to announce Episode 7 of the NER Out Loud podcast. This episode features Vermont authors Phoebe Stone and François Clemmons reading excerpts from their memoirs.
NER summer interns Rahat Huda and Leila Markosian are the hosts for this episode, which features a brief portion of the Q&A session from a live event at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater earlier in the year.
“Teapot in Turquoise,” Phoebe Stone’s recollection of a tragic childhood event, transports the listener to the coldly glittering landscape of England in the wintertime. This story is forthcoming in her book, Tree Full of Sky. Stone captivates us with her story, and equally so with the questions of why we retain the memories that we do, how they change us, and why it is that we long to share those stories.
François Clemmons, widely recognized as Officer Clemmons of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, is an actor, activist, and writer who had a long career as an opera singer. In this podcast, he shares his unforgettable first memories in “From the Beginning” (NER 39.2), an excerpt from his memoir, taking us to the Southern plantation that his family called home. The power of his telling captures the power of plantation owners over the families who worked the land. As Clemmons says, “Nobody else can tell your story”—and few can tell a story like François.
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Episode 6 of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!
Hosted by NER intern, Jeremy Navarro, this episode is the second in our Vermont Writers Series, an ongoing project in which we ask NER authors who live in Vermont to read their own work.
This episode features Jay Parini reading his short autobiographical piece, “A Beer with Borges,” and Genevieve Plunkett reading her O. Henry Award–winning story, “Something for a Young Woman.”
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Episode 5 of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!
Hosted by producer Juliette Luini, this episode is the first in NER Out Loud’s Vermont Writers Series, an ongoing project in which we ask NER authors who live in Vermont to read their own work.
This episode features poet Didi Jackson reading her poems published by NER—”Burning Bush” (spring 2018) and “Brancusi’s Bird in Space” (NER Digital)—along with several poems from her forthcoming collection, Moon Jar (2020).
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