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Middlebury Gathers at Poetry Free for All
Who do we want to be? This past Friday, July 15, members of the Middlebury community stepped away from the daily bustle and into a space of active reflection at the Kirk Alumni Center for the first-ever Poetry Free for All, hoping to answer that question as best they could. Co-sponsored by the Bread Loaf School of English, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, the Middlebury Language Schools, and the New England Review, the event featured a diverse spread of readers that put the breadth and depth of Middlebury’s influence on full display. Included below are a handful of photos from the event.
Those interested in learning more about the various readers can read more on the Middlebury College website here.
Join Us for a “Poetry Free for All”
The Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English and friends are hosting a “Poetry Free for All” on Friday, July 14, 7-9 pm, to celebrate the power of poetry to shape our communities. The program will include special guests Martín Espada, Lauren Marie Schmidt, and others, selected from a pool of applicants. Poets wishing to participate are encouraged to submit one of their own poems and one by another writer on the issues that matter to them. Submissions are due by Friday, July 7. The event takes place at Middlebury’s Kirk Alumni Center, 217 Golf Course Road. Free and open to the public.
Addressing the question “Who do we want to be?” this event will feature both new and established poets. All poets wishing to participate are invited to submit poems to http://poetryfreeforall.submittable.com/submit by July 7. Applicants will be notified if they’ve been selected to participate by Sunday, July 9. The program will be selected and scheduled only from submissions. All are welcome to attend the event on July 14.
This one-of-a-kind event is presented by Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, Middlebury Language Schools, and New England Review.
Announcing NER 36.2
With its focus on China, NER 36.2 brings us up close to an old, new world of art and history, nature and poetry. Also in this issue, we traverse our own country from the Atlantic to the Pacific with authors as they remember collective pasts, brave their own presents, and escort the most foreign of foreigners from our halls of ivy to our backroads theaters. The new issue of NER has just shipped from the printer and a preview is available on our website. Order a print or digital copy today!
POETRY
Kazim Ali • David Baker • Christopher Bakken • Joshua Bennett • Bruce Bond • Luisa A. Igloria • Vandana Khanna • Rickey Laurentiis • Katrina Roberts • Ed Skoog • Xiao Kaiyu (translated by Christopher Lukpe) • Ya Shi (translated by Nick Admussen) • Yin Lichuan (translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain)
FICTION
Steve De Jarnatt • Joann Kobin • Carla Panciera • Sharon Solwitz • Michael X. Wang.
NONFICTION
• Wei An’s ruminations on nature just north of Beijing (translated by Thomas Moran)
• Wendy Willis on Ai Weiwei’s blockbuster show at Alcatraz
• Marianne Boruch discovers the diagnostic value of poetry
• Interpreter Eric Wilson relives the encounters of a Faeroese poet with American activists, academics, and alcohol
• James Naremore considers the considerable Orson Welles at 100, looking beyond Citizen Kane
• Jeff Staiger makes a case for how The Pale King was to have trumped Infinite Jest
• Camille T. Dungy is more than welcomed to Presque Isle as she finds herself in Maine’s early history
• “The Gloomy Dean” William Ralph Inge revisits Rome under the Caesars
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