Every day I sit in the café
as if nudging time to pick up the pace.
Everything around us is misery, misery,
even the way we talk . . .
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Featuring three poems by Elyas Alavi, translated by Sholeh Wolpé, & a conversation between Alavi & Wolpé in which they discuss the impact of exile & the lessons that can be learned from displacement, adversity, & fortitude of the spirit.
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Staff reader Autumn Mitchell talks with NER 47.1 author Ranbir Sidhu about subjectivity, the racial politics of failure, and rejecting self-commodification in his essay “The Art of Failure.”
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New England Review and the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference are thrilled to introduce Abigail Dembo as the recipient of the twelfth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.
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Browse & shop new books by Scott Broker, Joshua Bennett, Rebecca Lehmann, Richie Hofmann, & more.
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Join us for a virtual reading in celebration of the six finalists for the 2026 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers: Michael Carson, Joel Cuthbertson, Tom DeBeauchamp, Abigail Dembo, Maja Lukic, Paul S. Ukrainets.
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Join us on Thursday, April 30, at 7 PM EST in Middlebury College’s Humanities House (115 Franklin Street) for the fourth installment of NER‘s Ulysses Reading Series.
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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).
