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November 8, 7:30 pm

NER Out Loud LIVE!

October 24, 2019

  • Readers from past NER Out Loud events

Join us for the sixth annual NER Out Loud and S’More Readings reception on Friday, November 8, 2019, at 7:30 pm!

In the tradition of Public Radio International’s “Selected Shorts,” students from Oratory Now will read selections from the New England Review  in the Dance Theatre at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. The event will be followed by a “S’more Readings” reception with student writers and contributors to campus literary publications, who will read from their own writing.

This year’s readers and selections for the live program will include: Dave Anderson ’19.5 reading Breathe by Jerald Walker; Steph Miller ’20 reading Protozoa by Ella Martinsen Gorham, edited and directed by Cole Merrell ’21; Max Padilla ’22 reading Caterpillars by Rosaleen Bertolino; Andrés Santana ’23 reading Last Sundays at Bootleggers by Carlos Andrés Gómez; Cole Merrell ’21 reading For You by Aleš Šteger; and Kamari Williams ’23 reading Still Still Still by Matthew Lippman. All of the selections were originally published by New England Review in 2019.

In a post-show “S’more Readings Reception,” student writers will read from their own recent work and present a variety of campus literary publications. Attendees will be invited to enjoy s’more-themed treats while listening to the readings in the lobby and browsing an assortment of literary magazines. Readers will be Sarah Asch ‘19.5, Martha Langford ’20, Paul Flores Clavel ’22, Olivia Pintair ‘22.5, and Patrick Wachira ’23.

Both events are free and open to the public. Sign language interpretation will be offered.

Filed Under: Audio, Events, NER Out Loud, News & Notes

Reading November 14 in Middlebury

Megan Mayhew Bergman & Spring Ulmer

September 17, 2019

Megan Mayhew Bergman and Spring Ulmer

New England Review and the Middlebury College Creative Writing Program are pleased to present new writing faculty Megan Mayhew Bergman and Spring Ulmer, who will read from their fiction and essays. Join us Thursday, November 14, at 4:30 pm, in the Axinn Center, Abernethy Room, at Middlebury College. Light refreshments will be served in the Winter Garden.

Megan Mayhew Bergman, joining the Creative Writing faculty this year in fiction, is the author of Almost Famous Women, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, and Indigo Run. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, and other publications. She was a fellow at the American Library in Paris and now directs Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.

Spring Ulmer, who joined the Creative Writing faculty last fall with a specialty in nonfiction, is the author of Benjamin’s Spectacles, The Age of Virtual Reproduction, and the forthcoming Bestiality of the Involved. She lives in Essex, New York, with her son André.

Filed Under: Events, News & Notes Tagged With: Megan Mayhew-Bergman

NER Vermont Reading Series

October 10 at 7 pm

September 5, 2019

from left: Emily Arnason Casey, Rahat Huda, Sara London, Sarah Wolfson

Join us for an evening of new writing with poets Sara London and Sarah Wolfson, essayist Emily Arnason Casey, and fiction writer Rahat Huda, at the Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main Street, Middlebury, VT.

Light refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public.

Emily Arnason Casey’s debut collection of essays, Made Holy, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. She has been an instructor at the Community College of Vermont, Winooski, since 2012, and her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Hotel Amerika, The Normal School,Hunger Mountain, and other journals. Originally from northern Minnesota, she now lives with her family in Orwell, Vermont. 

Rahat Huda is a junior at Middlebury College. Originally from New York, she writes about the city in all its hectic glory. She spends any spare time she has daydreaming about adopting a pitbull after graduation. 

Sara London is the author of Upkeep (Four Way Books, 2019) and The Tyranny of Milk (Four Way Books, 2010). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Common, Quarterly West, Cortland Review, and Hudson Review. She grew up in California and Vermont and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She teaches at Smith College and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Sarah Wolfson is the author of the debut poetry collection A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals including AGNI, The Fiddlehead, Michigan Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Originally from Vermont, she now lives in Montreal, where she teaches writing at McGill University.

The NER Vermont Reading Series is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop. To be added to our events email list, please send a message to NER.Vermont@gmail.com. 

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A Midd Reunion Reading

NER welcomes alumni and faculty, June 8

May 28, 2019

New England Review is pleased to present its annual gathering of Middlebury College alumni and faculty authors during Middlebury’s reunion weekend, Saturday, June 8, at 2:30 p.m. Axinn Center, Room 229. This year brings a range of accomplished alumni from classes ranging from 1979 to 2009, with Sam Collier, Dede Cummings, Meghan Laslocky, and Emilie Trice, along with Middlebury College professor of poetry and creative writing Karin Gottshall. The authors will read from a range of poems, stories, essays, and more. Books will be available for signing; free and open to the public.

Sam Collier ’09 is a playwright, poet, and theater artist. Her play Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King was a finalist for the O’Neill Theater Center’s 2017 National Playwright Conference. Other plays include Silo Tree, Suit of Leaves,thing with feathers, and Quiet, Witches. Her work has been developed by the Chicago Theatre Marathon, Theater Nyx, PTP/NYC, New Ground Theatre, the UNESCO Cities’ Play Festival, and the AWOI Little Festival of Iowa Legends. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Iron Horse, Mortar Magazine, Guernica, and others, and she has held fellowships and residencies with the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the National Theatre Institute, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. She holds an MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa.

Dede Cummings ’79 is a Vermont poet and publisher, and commentator for Vermont Public Radio. At Middlebury College, she won the Mary Dunning Thwing Award and attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as an undergraduate fellow. She has published poems in Mademoiselle, Connotation Press,Mom Egg Review,Bloodroot Literary,and Green Mountains Reviewand was a Discover/The Nation poetry semi-finalist and a 2016 Vermont Studio Center poet. Her first poetry book, To Look Out From, won the 2016 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. Her second collection of poetry, The Meeting Place, is due out in spring 2020 from Salmon Poetry. Dede is the founder and publisher of Green Writers Press in Brattleboro, Vermont, a global press devoted to environmental activism, social justice, and sustainable publishing. 

Karin Gottshall, Assistant Professor in English and American Literatures, is the author of two award-winning poetry books: Crocus (Fordham University Press, 2007) and The River Won’t Hold You (Ohio State University Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared in national literary journals such as FIELD, New England Review, and Kenyon Review. A 2015 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference poetry fellowship winner, Gottshall lives in Vermont where she teaches at Middlebury College and directs the New England Young Writers’ Conference.

Meghan Laslocky ’89 grew up on a farm in Shoreham, attended MUHS and The Madeira School, and majored in English at Middlebury. Her book, The Little Book of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages, was inspired by history’s great love stories, and by her own, both happy and sad. She lives in Oakland, California, with her son and regularly returns to Vermont to spend time with her family and friends here. 

Emilie Trice ’04 is an artist, writer, and curator specializing in contemporary visual culture. Her writing has appeared online for the New York Times, Paris Review, Artforum, Artnet, and Dazed Digital, and in international magazines including Sleek (Berlin), SOMA (San Francisco), and DAMn (Brussels). She has written catalogue essays for artists such as Miya Ando and Ted Riederer and has been cited in academic publications including Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science and History.

Filed Under: Events, News & Notes Tagged With: Dede Cummings, Emilie Trice, Karin Gottshall, Meghan Laslocky, Sam Collier

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NER Managing Editor Leslie Sainz talks with poet Corey Van Landingham about urgency and liberation in persona poetry, the character of silence, and her two poems in NER 43.2.

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