NER Ulysses Reading Series: National Poetry Month Edition - April 17, 7 PM, Humanities House, Middlebury College

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EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
YA SHI  Full Moon Night / Entering the Hills
translated by Nick Admussen
DAVID BAKER  Storm Psalm
BRUCE BOND  Blood
KAZIM ALI  Letter to Zephyr the West Wind, from the boy Hyacinth
KATRINA ROBERTS  An Ever of Salt
CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN  Elegy  /  Myth
LUISA A. IGLORIA  Syllogism
XIAO KAIYU  Our Poets  /  A Novel
translated by Christopher Lupke
JOSHUA BENNETT  The Sobbing School  /  Aubade with Insomnia
RICKEY LAURENTIIS  Memory and Happiness
VANDANA KHANNA  Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation  /  Goddess in the Dark
ED SKOOG  Free Climb
YIN LICHUAN  Korea, North Korea  /  A Flower
translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

FICTION
CARLA PANCIERA  The Kind of People Who Look at Art
STEVE DE JARNATT  Wraiths in Swelter
JOANN KOBIN  Late Dating
SHARON SOLWITZ  Gifted
MICHAEL X. WANG  Further News of Defeat

NONFICTION
Testimonies
WEI AN  from Life on Earth
translated by Thomas Moran

Investigations
MARIANNE BORUCH  Diagnosis, Poetry, and the Burden of Mystery

Literary Lives
ERIC WILSON  I Sing You for an Apple

Film
JAMES NAREMORE  Orson Welles: Director, Magician, and Pedagogue

Art
WENDY WILLIS  These Are Strange Times, My Dear: Considering Ai Weiwei’s @Large

Literary Criticism
JEFF STAIGER  David Foster Wallace’s Contest with Himself

Reports from American Places
CAMILLE T. DUNGY  A Shade North of Ordinary

REDISCOVERIES
WILLIAM RALPH INGE  Despotism and Free Expression Under the Caesars

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES