“Though ‘The Manifest’ is my poem of Idaho written in Idaho, someone else wrote Idaho long ago. Thus the eponymous poem is not only anonymous but an exquisite corpse, a shared writing of the world . . .”
Author: Leslie Sainz
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Oscar Oswald
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Alumni Reading at Reunion 2026
In celebration of Middlebury’s reunion weekend, New England Review will host a reading for five alumni authors on Saturday, June 6, at 1 PM in Axinn Center 232. This event is free and open to the public.
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Species of Attention: On Translation
“The threat that translation should pose is the kind good comedy poses—it punches up, not laterally or downwards. Translation should disturb. It should alarm. It is essential, in fact, that it distress, especially the powers that keep trying to tell us a text is fixed . . .”
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April ’26 Reading Roundup
Browse & shop new books by Christopher Kondrich, Nur Turkmani, Amit Majmudar, Ina Cariño, & more.
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Elyas Alavi & Sholeh Wolpé
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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March ’26 Reading Roundup
Browse & shop new books by Scott Broker, Joshua Bennett, Rebecca Lehmann, Richie Hofmann, & more.
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New England Review Award for Emerging Writers: 2026 Finalist Showcase
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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NER Ulysses Reading Series: Cramer, Lamb, Reynolds, & Zhang
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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Patrick Phillips
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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Jessie Li
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.”
