NER Ulysses Reading Series: National Poetry Month Edition - April 17, 7 PM, Humanities House, Middlebury College

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EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
RICARDO PAU-LLOSA  Allegory of Art
LINDA BIERDS  The Hardy Tree
STANLEY PLUMLY  Lost Then Found Photograph of My Parents
JULIE MARIE WADE  Portrait of the Sister as Phantom Limb / Portrait of Grief as Rocking Chair
HENRY KEARNEY, IV  Shotgun Elegy
JAMES ALLEN HALL  Irregular Plurals/ Elegy with Pyre, Match, and Father
JANE MEAD  Selections from World of Made and Unmade
DAVID MURA  A Late Elegy for Jimmy

CROSSING THROUGH THE PRESENT: GERMAN POETRY IN TRANSLATION
SARAH KIRSCH  Winter
translated by Anne Stokes
ANDREAS ALTMANN  angel story
translated by Birgit Bunzel Linder
DURS GRÜNBEIN  Artichokes / One of Many Moments
translated by Karen Leeder
DANIELA DANZ  Bee-Folk or the Good State / And in the Beginning There Are Pictures
translated by Harry Roddy
JAN WAGNER  Nicosia / Hamburg-Berlin
translated by Iain Galbraith
ESTHER KINSKY  [Disturbed lands] translated by Iain Galbraith
PETER WATERHOUSE  Return of Ecstasy / Doubts about Trams / Zakid’s Delicatessen, Bremen
translated by Iain Galbraith
LUTZ SEILER  homeward
translated by Alexander Booth
ULJANA WOLF  on classification in language, a feeble reader
translated by Sophie Seita
CHRISTINE LAVANT  [Through one of the many yellow] / [Old sleep] translated by David Chorlton
ULRIKE ALMUT SANDIG  [lullaby for all] translated by Karen Leeder
GÜNTER KUNERT  Historical Consciousness / Legacies
translated by Gerald Chapple

FICTION
CHELIKA YAPA  Follow-Up
RON CARLSON  Crooners
TAMAS DOBOZY  Steyr Mannlicher
LEAH MCCORMACK  Blameless

NONFICTION
Observations
LIA PURPURA  All the Fierce Tethers

Literary Lives
MARIE LUISE KNOTT  Intentionally Left Blank
translated by Margitt Lehbert

Testimonies
DURS GRÜNBEIN  Russians at the Gates
translated by Karen Leeder
PETER CHILSON  Welcome to Mali

Letters from Abroad
JOSEPH PEARSON  Three German Cities

Performance Pieces 
MARIUS VON MAYENBURG  Moving Target
translated by Maja Zade

REDISCOVERIES
WALTER BAGEHOT  On the Metaphysical Basis of Toleration

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