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Northeast by Northwest: NER Writers of the PacNW

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

Situated at the foot of the Green Mountains, New England Review looks in every direction when it comes to publishing great new writing. In this reading of poetry and prose from recent contributors, New England Review is proud to present four writers who live and work within view of the Cascades. This reading highlights the range of voices that NER has published over the past four decades, while celebrating writers of the Pacific Northwest.

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

Photo by Jay Eads

Geri Doran is the author of Epistle, Osprey (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2019) and two previous collections of poems, Sanderlings (Tupelo Press, 2011) and Resin (LSU Press, 2005). She has received the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Stegner Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the James Merrill House, Maison Dora Maar, Lighthouse Works, Millay Colony and Vermont Studio Center, among others. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. 

Ismet Prcic is a Bosnian American writer. His debut novel Shards won the Los Angeles Times and Sue Kaufman awards for first fiction as well as the Oregon Book Awards in fiction. He received the NEA award in 2010 and is a Sundance Institute Screening fellow.

Janet Towle‘s fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Passages North, Eleven Eleven and New England Review. She won Carve Magazine‘s Raymond Carver Short Story Contest in 2016. She is working on a collection of short stories and a novel. 

Wendy Willis is a poet, essayist, and lawyer. She teaches poetry at the Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon, and serves as the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and Oregon’s Kitchen Table. Her next book, Field Notes from the Republic, will be released in early 2019.

Stop by the New England Review 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 see our panel, Dear Lit Mag Editors: Now What? on Thursday, March 28, at 1:30 pm.

NER Out Loud: Episode 3

Heather Christle and Janet Towle

Podcast host Megan Job

Listen in, as three Midd student actors read recent work from NER, animating stories and poems through vocal performances.

Hosted by Megan Job, episode three focuses on two new works that use form and language to illustrate the contemporary condition—interruption, cross-pollination, frustration, and maybe even a little rage.

• “In Order of Appearance” by Heather Christle (NER 39.2), read by Melanie Rivera.

• Excerpts from “Modal Window” by Janet Towle (NER 39.2), read by Becca Berlind and Sam Tompkins Martin.

 

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Janet Towle

Modal Window

New fiction from NER 39.2

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“Window” by Sandeep Kumar Mishra

This is a modal window. On the night before Thanksgiving, four wings of the McAuley family gathered at their eight-bedroom cabin in the mountains to make merry. Discreet black sedans rumbled slowly up the long poplar-lined driveway toward the cabin with its distant bright windows, gold-capped acorns and brilliant yellow leaves crunching beneath the tires, and then children tumbled out of back seats gloveless and hatless and scarfless and coatless, laughing at the pure joy of the cold, their newly visible breath dispersing into the strange opacity of this country night. Elsewhere, perhaps, and at another time of year, their parents would have hustled them inside, but at the cabin it didn’t matter—at the cabin Grandma McAuley stood waiting in the foyer with a festive apron and hot toddy fixings close at hand, and the adults had no compunctions about letting the cousins play tag in the dark beneath the stars.

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Janet Towle grew up between forest fires. She has an MFA from the University of Arizona, and her short stories have appeared in Carve, Eleven Eleven, the Normal School, and Passages North.

Sandeep Kumar Mishra is a stage artist, painter, writer and a lecturer in English with Masters in English Literature and Political Science.

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