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September 2021

New Books by NER Authors

September 2, 2021

As we transition into the fall season, check out these new and forthcoming titles from our authors!

Devon Walker-Figueroa was the winner of NER’s fourth annual Emerging Writer Award. Her debut collection of poems, Philomath (Milkweed Editions), is the winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series and “a ruminative catalogue of overgrowth and the places that haunt us.” With an explorer’s eye, “Walker-Figueroa writes in quiet awe of nature, of memory, and of a beauty that is ‘merely existence carrying on and carrying on.’ In her wanderings, she guides readers toward a kind of witness that doesn’t flinch from the bleak or bizarre: A vineyard engulfed in flames is reclaimed by the fields. A sow smothers its young, then bears more. A neighbor chews locusts in his yard.” The title poem of her collection, “Philomath,” was originally published in NER 38.1

Christopher Sorrentino, author of the novels Trance, The Fugitives, and Sound on Sound, and whose work appeared in NER 26.2, recently released his debut memoir, Now Beacon, Now Sea (Catapult). A intimate meditation on familial grief, the book is “a defining account of what it means to love and lose a difficult parent” and “a matchless portrait of the beautiful, painful messiness of life, and the transformative power of even conflicted grief.”

Poet and translator Jennifer Grotz worked with Piotr Sommer to co-translate the selected works of Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski in Everything I Don’t Know (World Poetry Books). Lauded by author Matthew Zapruder as “one of Poland’s best kept secrets,” Jerzy Ficowski’s poems are “a marvel in its weird clarity and extraordinary range of styles and subjects, from the perfectly unassuming paradox of the title, all the way through to its final poems about bumblebees and Satie and mother nature, who scratches herself and ‘shudders / with a tsunami.'” Grotz’s poems and translations have been featured frequently in NER. Two poems from Everything I Don’t Know, “Revolt” and “My Attempted Travels,” have been published in NER 38.2. Read our most recent conversation with Jennifer Grotz and Simone Kraus on the world of translation.

Gabeba Baderoon‘s The History of Intimacy (Triquarterly Books) is “a tender, tangled account of the heady days in South Africa following Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. This award-winning poetry collection portrays the innovative forms of music, kinship, and even self in ‘the new, intricate country / we understood was impossible.'” Baderoon’s piece, “Finding and Growing Athlone” was featured in NER 38.4‘s selection of writing from contemporary South African authors.

In Becky Hagenston‘s fourth collection, The Age of Discovery (Mad Creek Books), “the real and the fantastic collide in stories that span from Mississippi to Europe, and from the recent past to the near future. The characters are sex-toy sellers, internet trolls, parents, students, and babysitters—all trying to make sense of a world where nothing is quite what it appears to be.” Hagenston’s short story “Rise” was featured in NER 37.2.

Poet Maggie Smith writes towards the beauty of the present moment in Goldenrod (Atria/One Signal Publishers). “Pulling objects from everyday life—a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son’s pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road—she reveals the magic of the present moment.” The poems in her latest collection “celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.” Smith’s poem, “The Hum” was featured in NER 40.1.

You can find these and other NER authors’ books at our page at Bookshop.org.

Filed Under: Featured, NER Authors' Books, News & Notes Tagged With: Becky Hagenston, Christopher Sorrentino, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Gabeba Baderoon, Jennifer Grotz, Jerzy Ficowski, Maggie Smith

Devon Walker-Figueroa Wins NER Emerging Writers Award

February 9, 2018

It is with enormous pleasure that New England Review and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference announce the selection of Devon Walker-Figueroa as the recipient of the fourth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.

Devon Walker-Figueroa, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, serves as Co-Founding Editor of Horsethief Books. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such publications as the New England Review, the Harvard Advocate, American Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lana Turner, Narrative, and Tin House’s The Open Bar. She currently lives in Harrison, New Jersey.

Devon will attend the 2018 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as the New England Review Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar.

The NER Award for Emerging Writers provides a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for an emerging writer in any genre. This annual award, which is be bestowed upon a writer who offers an unusual and compelling new voice and who has been published by NER in the previous year, is selected by the NER editorial staff and the BLWC director.

Filed Under: News & Notes Tagged With: Bread Loaf Emerging Writer's Award, Devon Walker-Figueroa

NER Out Loud Online

January 11, 2018

In case you missed it—or want to relive the live event—all audio recordings, photos, and reader and author bios from the November 2017 NER Out Loud performance are now available online.

Follow the links below or visit the NER Out Loud home page.

 

Pele Voncujovi reads Kazim Ali’s “Origin Story”

Sam Martin reads Clarence Orsi’s “Take Stock”

Paige Guarino reads Devon Walker-Figueroa’s “Philomath”

Nia Robinson reads Rosaleen Bertolino’s “The Doll Family”

Dominick Tanoh reads Paisley Rekdal’s “Horn of Plenty”

Amanda Whiteley reads David Heronry’s “War Stories”

A photo slideshow of the event can also be found HERE.

Photos and information about the S’Mores Reading Reception can be found HERE.

All photos are available in individual format through albums (“NER Out Loud 2017” and “S’Mores Reading Reception 2017″) on the NER Facebook page.

 

Filed Under: Audio, NER Out Loud, News & Notes Tagged With: Clarence Orsi, David Heronry, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Kazim Ali, Paisley Rekdal, Rosaleen Bertolino


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