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The NER Out Loud podcast began as a spin-off to our live annual event featuring student actors, and has grown to include a Vermont Writers Series, in which we ask NER authors who live in Vermont to read their own work. The podcast is hosted and edited by Middlebury student interns in collaboration with the NER staff.

Each episode of NER Out Loud animates stories and poetry through vocal performances, celebrating the artistic exchange between text and voice. We believe that any piece of writing is a collaboration between writer and reader, and that there is something vital and revelatory about listening to words read aloud. 

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Episode 7, hosted by NER interns Rahat Huda and Leila Markosian, features two memoirs steeped in childhood, “Teapot in Turquoise” (NER Digital) by Phoebe Stone, and “From the Beginning” (NER 39.2) by François Clemmons, the next episode from NER Out Loud’s Vermont Writers Series.

Episode 6, hosted and edited by Jeremy Navarro, is part of NER Out Loud’s Vermont Writers Series.

This episode features Jay Parini reading his short autobiographical piece, “A Beer with Borges” (NER 39.1) and Genevieve Plunkett reading her O. Henry Award–winning story, “Something for a Young Woman” (NER 36.3).

Episode 5, hosted and edited by Juliette Luini, is the first in NER Out Loud’s Vermont Writers Series.

This episode features poet Didi Jackson reading her poems published by NER—”The Burning Bush” (NER 39.1) and “Brancusi’s Bird in Space” (NER Digital)—along with several poems from her forthcoming collection, Moon Jar (2020).

Episode 4 presents two short stories, exploring female identities and experiences, by Emily Geminder and Alla Gorbunova, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter. Hosted by Megan Job and read by students from Oratory Now. Edited by Hannah McKenzie and Juliette Luini.

• “Phnom Penh 2012” by Emily Geminder (NER 36.4), read by Emily Ma.
• “Biomass” by Alla Gorbunova (NER 39.2), read by Masha Makutonina.

Hosted by Megan Job, this episode presents a poem and a story, both using form and language to illustrate the contemporary condition. Read by students from the Middlebury Theatre Department and Oratory Now. Edited by NER intern Tess Weitzner.

• “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

Hosted by Kylie Winger, this episode showcases poems by three well-known and much-loved American poets. Read by students from the Middlebury Theatre Department and Oratory Now. Edited by NER intern Juliette Luini.

• “Sweet” by Bob Hicok (NER 37.1), read by Pele Voncujovi
• “Obit—Memory,” “Obit—Music,” and “Obit—Grief” by Victoria Chang (NER 38.3), read by Katie Mayopoulos
• “I Shot a Frog I Shot a Bird” (NER 36.1) by C. K. Williams, read by Will Koch

Two recent pieces from NER that converge on the themes of art and destruction. Edited and hosted by Juliette Luini; directed by Sam Tompkins Martin; read by students from the Middlebury Theatre Department and Oratory Now.

• “Shotgun Elegy,” a poem by Henry Kearney IV (NER 37.3), read by Will Koch.
• “Chinese Opera,”  short story by Anne Raeff (NER 37.2),  read by Gabby Valdivieso.

Special thanks to Dana Yeaton and Oratory Now for their support in the creation and production of these podcasts.