NEW ENGLAND REVIEW

NER Out Loud is a collaboration of the New England Review, the Mahaney Arts Center, and Oratory Now. In the tradition of NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” Middlebury student actors read selections from the New England Review in a live performance, lending their voices to the work on the page and bringing it to life for an audience of students, faculty, and community members. Each year the event also features students reading their own work in a “S’More Readings” reception, representing a variety of student-edited journals.

Hear Middlebury singer, author, and celebrity Francois Clemmons read from his debut memoir, now out in paperback. Known to the world from his role on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” Dr. Clemmons has long been known locally as the Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence and director of the Martin Luther King Spiritual Choir at Middlebury College, where he served from 1997 until his retirement in 2015. He is also an actor, activist, and Grammy Award–winning singer.

These two well-known Middlebury artists will read from and discuss their memoirs-in-progress, followed by an audience Q&A and a reception.

François Scarborough Clemmons is an actor, activist, and writer who performed with the New York City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and more. He created and played the role of Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Phoebe Stone is a painter, poet, and author of seven novels for young adults. Phoebe grew up in Vermont, in a family of poets and novelists, and has spent most of her life painting and writing.

The New England Review presents an evening of new writing with poets Sara London and Sarah Wolfson, essayist Emily Arnason Casey, and fiction writer Rahat Huda, at the Vermont Book Shop.

New England Review presents a reading with three new fiction writers: Brad Felver, whose debut collection of stories, The Dogs of Detroit, won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize; David Moats, a well-known Vermont journalist whose new fiction appears in the current issue of NER; and Kylie Winger, a Middlebury College senior and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference alum. Light refreshments will be served.

Location: The Vermont Bookshop, 38 Main St. Middlebury.  Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the New England Review and the Vermont Bookshop

Meet new Creative Writing faculty Megan Mayhew Bergman and Spring Ulmer, at this reading and reception. Books will be available for signing, and light refreshments will be served.

New England Review and the Vermont Book Shop present two Tupelo Press authors for a summer reading: David Huddle, the author of 21 books of poetry, fiction, and essays, will present his new novel, Hazel; and Gregory Spatz, a fiction writer, fiddler, and long-time NER contributor will present What Could Be Saved, his new collection of novellas and stories. Light refreshments will be served.