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NER Out Loud Episode 5: Introducing the Vermont Writers Series

Didi Jackson

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).

Read and listen here or subscribe on Apple Podcasts! 

NER Out Loud: The Podcast

New episode features stories by Geminder and Gorbunova

Masha Makutonina reading “Biomass,” by Alla Gorbunova

We’re delighted to bring you Episode 4 of the NER Out Loud podcast, which features two stories by NER authors read by students at Middlebury College.

Megan Job hosts this episode, with stories by Emily Geminder and Alla Gorbunova, read by Emily Ma and Masha Makutonina.

Emily Geminder’s story, “Phnom Penh 2012,” told from the collective “we” of young women reporters for the Cambodia Daily, is a haunting portrayal of the dangers and enticements of living for a short time in a new culture. Presented here in the captivating voice of actor Emily Ma.

Alla Gorbunova’s “Biomass,” translated from the Russian by Elina Alter, is a fable-like story of a marriage gone bad, from Gorbunova’s recent collection Ings & Oughts. Ukrainian vocal talent and Oratory Now coach Masha Makutonina offers her convincing rendition.

Listen on our website or download from iTunes.

NER Out Loud: The Podcast

Listen to Poetry on Episode 2

The second episode of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!

Hosted by NER intern and lit major Kylie Winger, this episode showcases poems by three well-known and much-loved American poets, read by Middlebury actors and orators.

• “Sweet” by Bob Hicok (NER 37.1), read by Pele Voncujovi
• “Obit—Memory,” “Obit—Music,” and “Obit—Grief” by Victoria Chang (NER 38.3), read by Katie Mayopoulos
• “I Shot a Frog I Shot a Bird” (NER 36.1) by C. K. Williams, read by Will Koch

Read and listen here or subscribe on Apple Podcasts! 

Episode 1: Henry Kearney IV & Anne Raeff

NER Out Loud: The Podcast

The first episode of NER Out Loud, the podcast, is now available!

NER Out Loud animates stories and poetry through vocal performances, celebrating the artistic exchange between text and voice.

Our first episode, hosted by intern Juliette Luini, presents two recent pieces from NER that converge on the themes of art and destruction.

• “Shotgun Elegy,” a poem by Henry Kearney IV (NER 37.3), is read by Will Koch.
• “Chinese Opera,”  short story by Anne Raeff (NER 37.2), is read by Gabby Valdivieso.

Listen and subscribe! 

Future podcasts may include conversations with the readers and authors, snippets from the recording studio, or audio from the annual NER Out Loud live event, held right here in Middlebury, VT.

Special thanks to Dana Yeaton and Oratory Now for their support in the creation and production of these podcasts. 

If you have a favorite piece from NER that you’d like to hear read aloud, contact us at nereview@middlebury.edu.

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