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

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POETRY EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
DANIEL BORZUTZKY  Was He Free? Was He Happy?
ROB COLGATE  Ode to Pissing
REBECCA LEHMANN  A Dozen Daughters / The Red Planet
COURTNEY DUCHENE  What If Culling Is How You Save the Ecosystem?
TIANYI  Knees as a Sign of Wonder / Age of Pomegranates as Dream
PIMONE TRIPLETT  World Bank
GRADY CHAMBERS  Second Summer / [There were, that summer, so few people]
LISA RUSS SPAAR  God Ache: espalier / God Ache: Equinox

FICTION
NATHAN CURTIS ROBERTS  A Theory of History
MARIANNE BORUCH  The Empty Child
K. R. MULLINS  Mirror / Jane
SHARON SOLWITZ  Ghost of an Old Injury
IMAD RAHMAN  Ed Thinks of Everything

NONFICTION
Journeys
KYLE MINOR  Junk Temples
DEBRA SPARK  If You Can Believe It

Reckonings
NOAH MARCEL SUDARSKY  Peter Piper and the Celtic Viper

Investigations
MAIREAD SMALL STAID  M. & I

TRANSLATIONS
ANONYMOUS  Riddle 5 / Riddle 22
translated by Ophelia Eryn Hostetter
VIJAY TENDULKAR  The Gift of a Daughter
translated by Vinay Dharwadker
MARINA TSVETAEVA   from Poem of the Mountain
translated by Marina Pavlova

REDISCOVERIES
ALFRED DE MUSSET   Witness to a Century

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES