Join us on Tuesday, March 31, at 8:00 PM ET for a virtual reading celebrating the six finalists for the 2026 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers. Featuring Michael Carson, Joel Cuthbertson, Tom DeBeauchamp, Abigail Dembo, Maja Lukic, & Paul S. Ukrainets.

Brian Teare reads an excerpt of his poetic sequence “from Association Copy.” Teare‘s poem is part of the feature “Mirroring Practice: Poets Respond to Jasper Johns,” and was originally published in NER 43.3 (2022). Excerpt text available here.

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