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Come see us at the AWP conference!

NER @ AWP Portland

March 13, 2019

Stop by our table (14103) for a copy of our spring issue, hot off the press. Also pick up subscription specials and back issue bargains, and sign up for our raffle.

Also check out these two NER-sponsored events!

Northeast by Northwest: New England Review Writers of the PacNW 

A reading with NER authors Geri Doran, Ismet Prcic, Janet Towle, and Wendy Willis.

A106, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1  
Thursday, March 28, 2019
10:30 am to 11:45 am 

Dear Lit Mag Editors: Now What?

A panel moderated by NER editor Carolyn Kuebler, with Lindsay Garbutt from Poetry, Luther Hughes from The Offing, Anna Lena Phillips from Ecotone, and Phillip B. Williams from Vinyl.

Portland Ballroom 255, Oregon Convention Center, Level 2
Thursday, March 28, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

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Tuesday, March 12, 7 pm

Phoebe Stone and Francois Clemmons: Reading and Conversation

February 27, 2019

These two Middlebury artists, known for their work in painting, opera, TV, and children’s books, will read from and discuss their memoirs-in-progress at Town Hall Theater. Readings will be followed by an audience Q&A and a reception downstairs in the Jackson Gallery. Presented by New England Review, where both writers have recently published excerpts from their new work, and Town Hall Theater, 68 Pleasant Street, Middlebury, VT. Tuesday, March 12, 7 pm. Free and open to the public.

Stone has published numerous books for children and young adults, as well as having a long career as a painter. Her memoir has just begun to take shape in the form of brief vignettes. “When I was writing these memoir pieces,” she says, “I really took to the structure of it. I liked working in the solid realm of real memory. It was a kind of relief from the constraints of invention! But then I think, that all creative writing in a way is memoir, contorted, altered and transformed . . . but the base is always memoir. How can it be otherwise?” 

Clemmons, who has recently been touring in connection with his role in the film Won’t You Be My Neighbor, where he talks about his transformational time as Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, has been at work on his own memoir for many years. Titled DivaMan: My Life in Song, his autobiography starts at the beginning, chronicling his early days in rural Alabama to singing with the Metropolitan Opera Studio, directing the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble, and beyond. The writing of this memoir has been a journey of its own. “The initial feeling was that I would write it but no one would ever read it,” he says. “I began to write and lo and behold the truth started coming out.” 

Phoebe Stone is a painter, poet, and author of seven novels for young adults—most recently Romeo Blue and The Boy on Cinnamon Street—and three picture books, including When the Wind Bears Go Dancing. Phoebe grew up in Vermont, in a family of poets and novelists, and has spent most of her life painting and writing. Before concentrating on creating books for children and young adults, Phoebe had a successful career as a fine art painter and exhibited her work in many museums and galleries all around New England and New York City. She is presently working on a series of memoir/short stories for a book. Read an excerpt here.

François Scarborough Clemmons is an actor, activist, and writer who had a long career as an opera singer, performing with the New York City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and more. He created and played the role of Officer Clemmons on the children’s TV show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and founded and directed the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble. He was Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence at Middlebury College from 1997 to 2013, where he directed the Martin Luther King Spiritual Choir. He is currently working on a series of children’s books and a memoir, DivaMan: My Life in Song. Read an excerpt here.

Town Hall Theater is located at 68 S Pleasant St., Middlebury, VT 05753 (802-382-9222). 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Francois Clemmons, Phoebe Stone

Reading in Middlebury, November 5

Cree LeFavour

October 31, 2018

Cree LeFavour, Middlebury alum and author of Lights On, Rats Out, will read from and discuss her work in Middlebury College’s Abernethy Room, Axinn Center, on Monday, November 5, 4:30 pm. Free and open to the public.

“In Lights On, Rats Out, Cree LeFavour writes of her struggles to feel she deserves a place in this world. This is one of the best books I have ever read about the drive for equilibrium and how transformative peace can be both for ourselves and our children.” —Darcey Steinke

Sponsored by the Department of English and American Literatures and New England Review.

About the Book: Lights On, Rats Outfocuses on the time when, as a young college graduate, she began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm. Her body became a canvas of cruelty; each scar a mark of pride and shame.

In sharp and shocking language, Lights On, Rats Out brings us closely into these years. We see the world as the author did—turned upside down, the richness of life muted and dulled, its pleasures perverted. The heady thrill of meeting with her psychiatrist, Dr. Adam N. Kohl—whose relationship with Cree is at once sustaining and paralyzing—comes to be the only bright spot in her days. Moving deftly between the dialogue and observations from psychiatric records and elegant, incisive reflection on youth and early adulthood, Lights On, Rats Out illuminates a fiercely bright and independent woman’s charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs.

photo by Beowulf Sheehan

About the Author: A writer and academic with a B.A. from Middlebury College (1988) and a Ph.D. in American Studies from NYU, Cree LeFavour is also the author of several cookbooks, including Pork (2014), James Beard Award–Nominated Fish (2013), Poulet (2012), and The New Steak (2008). Her recent book, Chelsea Market Makers (2016), is a collaborative effort with Michael Philips. She has also ghost-written books and proposals for chefs and artists and has published essays on topics such as Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Times of London, Bon Appetit, and O, The Oprah Magazine.

 

Filed Under: Events, News & Notes Tagged With: Cree LeFavour

Anniversary Readings

Coast to Coast

October 22, 2018

Lena Tuffaha, Susan Rich, Rick Barot, Martha Silano, Keetje Kuipers, Gabrielle Bates, Eric McMillan

In addition to our “From the Vault” posts, featuring past NER staff introducing gems from the archive, we celebrated our 40th anniversary with two readings this fall, one in Cambridge and one in Seattle. Thanks to the writers who call NER home—and to the beautiful independent bookstores that hosted these events!

On Saturday, October 20, six authors—Lena Tuffaha, Susan Rich, Martha Silano, Keetje Kuipers, Gabrielle Bates, and Eric McMillan—read their work at Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Seattle, with poetry editor Rick Barot. (pictured above)

On Friday, September 14, four authors—Steve Almond, Mark Clark, Oliver de la Paz, and Kim McLarin—read at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA, with editor Carolyn Kuebler and office manager Elizabeth Sutton. (pictured below)

Kim McLarin, Mary Clark, Oliver de la Paz, Steve Almond

Oliver de la Paz

Kim McLarin

Steve Almond

Steve Almond, Mary Clark, Carolyn Kuebler

Elizabeth Sutton

Filed Under: Events, News & Notes Tagged With: Open Books: A Poem Emporium, Porter Square Books

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Cover art by Anna Dibble

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