Georgia Vasilopoulos & Haeun Park
Our two spring interns, Georgia Vasilopoulos and Haeun Park, connect over Zoom and talk about their experience at NER.
Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from, and what are you studying at Middlebury?
Georgia: My family is from Greece and I was born there, but grew up in Queens, New York City. I am majoring in Literary Studies at Middlebury, but I’m pretty heavily steeped in humanities classes so I try to supplement literature classes with religion, political science, and philosophy courses.
Haeun: I’m from Houston, Texas! At Middlebury, I’m studying English and American Literatures and also planning to minor in Sociology. Like Georgia, it’s a pretty humanities-heavy course load, but that’s where most of my interests lie anyways, so I’m okay with that!
Contributors’ Notes
Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. His poems and translations are featured or forthcoming in
Poetry,
AzonaL,
Sara Backer’s first book of poetry,
Such Luck (Flowstone Press, 2019), follows two poetry chapbooks:
Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press, 2018) and
Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork, 2015). Her honors include the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize competition, eight Pushcart nominations, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi Resident Artists Programs. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, lives in New Hampshire, and reads for the
Maine Review. Point,
Marianne Boruch’s tenth book of poetry is
The Anti-Grief (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). She has written three essay collections about poetry, most recently
Marianne Boruch
Marianne Boruch, photo by David Dunlap
Sarah Wolfson talks with Marianne Boruch about the platypus, Pliny, and the discovery lurking in “the spill of words.” Read “The Lyrebird Hidden…” and “Every Available Blue…” in
NER 42.1.
Sarah Wolfson: These poems are part of your forthcoming book,
Bestiary Dark, a project you launched as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Canberra’s International Poetry Studies Institute. The purpose of your research was to observe Australian wildlife in order to write a bestiary. How did you first become interested in the bestiary genre?
Marianne Boruch: Is it an honest-to-Zeus
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