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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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 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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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).
