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

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EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
JOHN JAMES  The Field Which Had Been a Meadow Once / Epicurus
G. C. Waldrep  Some Lines Written in Clare Priory Yard
LILY GREENBERG  The Beginning According to Mrs. God
LAURA NEWBERN  Ashes / Summer Afternoon / Fables and Seas
BRIAN BLANCHFIELD  Holism / from New Year in Hot Springs
CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON  It’s Important I Remember That Abraham Lincoln Always Measured Before He Cut— / It’s Important I Remember That Frederick Douglass Learned How to Read—
LEILA CHATTI  Angels / In Lament of My Uterus
ESTHER LIN  French Sentence / Early Gothic
CINDY KING  Noumenon / A Poem by Dean Young by Mary Ruefle by Cindy King

FICTION
MICAH MULDOWNEY  Apis Mellifera
DAVID MOATS  Jones Street
JESSIE REN MARSHALL  Sister Fat
SAMUEL KOLAWOLE  Adjustment of Status

NOVELLA
LORI OSTLUND  Just Another Family

NONFICTION
Traveler’s Notebook
JOSEPH PEARSON  The Island That Eats People

Reckonings
MILDRED KICONCO BARYA  Poetics of Transmutation
ADRIE KUSSEROW  from Stories: South Sudan

Investigations
ALICE SPARBERG ALEXIOU  Fanny in Ottoman Jerusalem

Rediscoveries
ADELINE TRAFTON  An American Girl at Napoleon’s Tomb

TRANSLATIONS
GÁBOR SCHEIN  Night of Forests
translated by Ottilie Mulzet
YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH  The Captain’s Wife / Old Oliynyk
translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin
FANG XIN 方莘   Four Etudes
translated by the author

PERFORMANCE PIECES
CARIDAD SVICH  from Clara Thomas Bailey

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES