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

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NONFICTION EDITOR’S NOTE

POETRY
JULIE CHOFFEL  Executive Function / Rest Stop / Even the Others
BURNSIDE SOLEIL  In California for Your Birthday, We Saw Coyote at Dawn / Notes on the Second Horse in Charles Ray’s Two Horses
KAZIM ALI  Losing My Religion
JESSICA TANCK  Wood Violet / Return of the Prodigal Son
BRUCE BOND  Emptiness
SHANNON KUTA KELLY  Český Těšín/Cieszyn
PERRY LEVITCH  nobody’s cis at the airport

FICTION
ROY KESEY  Currency or Syntax or Lens
KATHLEEN WHEATON  Beautiful Bob’s House Museum
NICOLE ZHU  Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often
SAM MUNSON  The Coughing Policeman

NONFICTION
Explorations
JOANNA NOVAK  Beneath a Canopy of Light: Don’t Forget We Were Here

Reckonings
ALYSIA HAN  Mendelssohn
DAN MUSGRAVE  Limb from Limb

Testimonies
GABEBA BADEROON  Adjacency, or, Words for Pain

TRANSLATIONS
JANG EUN-JIN  Will Someone Please Come Knocking at My Door
translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton
GAROUS ABDOLMALEKIAN  from “The Middle East: A Trilogy—War, Love, Solitude”
translated by Siavash Saadlou
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 
At the Crossroads of Life and Death from The Idiot, Part One, Chapter V
translated by Michael R. Katz

CHUNGKING EXPRESS AT 30: REWATCHING WONG KAR WAI
guest edited by J. M. Tyree

MAY-LEE CHAI  Hong Kong, Mon Amour
TOMOÉ HILL Your scent is where I want you to take me
MICHAEL KAPLAN  Never Quite as It Seems
LAUREN HOHLE  The Central-Mid-Levels Escalator as Metaphor, or, a Theory of Narrative
ZEN REN  .01 cm apart
COREY ZELLER  When I Put on a Raincoat, I Put on Sunglasses Too. Who Knows When It Will Rain, or When It Will Turn Out Sunny?
NATHAN XIE  What Gives
CHESWAYO MPHANZA  Deleted Scene with Director’s Commentary
MAGGIE SU  Midnight Media
RENA J. MOSTEIRIN  Last Night California
SEÁN CARLSON  False Cognates
DENNIS HAUCK  Halyna Hutchins and Her Wong Kar Wai
FLORA QIAN  Hong Kong: A Love Story in Three Parts 
MEG POKRASS  In May
ANGELA CHEN  Year of the Rabbits

REDISCOVERIES
SAMUEL JOHNSON  On the Unquestionable Certainty of One’s Own Virtue

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES