Janie and I were driving through Beacon on one of those insane roller-coaster roads when we hit and killed a cat, a little black-and-orange-and-white calico.
“Oh, God,” I said . . .
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NER office manager Mary Heather Noble talks with writer, poet, & translator Kaveh Bassiri about love, the afterlife of language, & conveying the unknown in his essay “Tarjoma” from NER 46.3-4.
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Staff reader Nick Bertelson talks with poet Patrick Phillips about writing the dead beloved, the kinship between poetry and ministry, and the sacred and the profane in his poem “Shit Story” from NER 46.3-4.
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” . . . the gift of this new form enabled me to write during a weary time . . . what a good container for grief it has been.”
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Browse & shop new books by Cortney Lamar Charleston, Jennifer Militello, Kelly Hoffer, Bret Anthony Johnston, & more.
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The New England Review Award for Emerging Writers provides a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2026 and is given annually to an emerging writer who offers an unusual and compelling new voice and who has been published by NER in the past year.
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NER 46.3-4 contributor Jessie Li talks with staff reader Dana Lynch about infinite universes, writing in first-person plural, and the function of misunderstanding in her short story “How We Met Our Father.”
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NER Out Loud While my father was dying, I kept having dreams about my exes
Lauren Eggert-Crowe reads her poem “While my father was dying, I kept having dreams about my exes” from NER 47.1 (2026).
