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

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EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
MARTHA COLLINS  Out of Doors
BRIAN TEARE  After a Long Illness
SAFIYA SINCLAIR  Good Hair
BEN JACKSON  Table Bay
BRUCE SNIDER  They Will Not Eat the Bird of Paradise
MAXINE SCATES  My Wilderness
DEREK MONG  Exhausted, Renegade Elephant
RYAN TEITMAN  Margaret-Orthodox / Quakers
MARK NEELY  Animal / Automaton / Bruce’s Faith
CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON  Still Life with Young Black Woman’s Face Etched into a School Desk
WAYNE MILLER  On Progress
KARA VAN DE GRAAF  La Monstrua Vida

FICTION
KATE PETERSEN  After, Before
LESLIE BAZZETT  The Pretenders
BECKY HAGENSTON  Rise
TYLER SAGE  Lionel
ANNE RAEFF  Chinese Opera
BEN EISMAN  Right-Hearted

NONFICTION
Investigations
MARY EBBOTT  Tell Me How It Hurts: An Intersection of Poetry and Pain in the Iliad
ROB HARDY  Deceit only was forbidden: A Brief Literary Biography of Richard Henry Wilde

Provocations
NING KEN  Writing in the Age of the Ultra-Unreal
translated by Thomas Moran

Literary Lives
NATHANIEL G. NESMITH  The Life of a Playwright: An Interview with Steve Carter

Testimonies
ERIC SEVERN  A Partial Inventory of Things That Didn’t Work

TRANSLATIONS
VIRGIL  Aenid Book 7
translated by Ian Ganassi

REDISCOVERIES
JOHN KEATS  Two Prefaces to Endymion

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES