Northern New England Review Volume 42 | 2022
Northern New England Review is published as a creative voice for the Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine region. NNER publishes writers and artists who live in, are from, or have connections to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. If you live here, were once from here, lost or found your heart here, or are currently searching for it among the green hills, sparkling ponds, and rocky coasts, NNER has the poems, short fiction, and creative nonfiction you want to read. Northern New England Review is edited and designed by students and faculty at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. Questions can be sent to Margot Douaihy, editor, at douaihym@franklinpierce.edu.
Northern New England Review is published as a creative voice for the Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine region. NNER publishes writers and artists who live in, are from, or have connections to Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine. If you live here, were once from here, lost or found your heart here, or are currently searching for it among the green hills, sparkling ponds, and rocky coasts, NNER has the poems, short fiction, and creative nonfiction you want to read.
Northern New England Review is edited and designed by students and faculty at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. Questions can be sent to Margot Douaihy, editor, at douaihym@franklinpierce.edu.
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Zoe Tuck
NO SUNLIGHT
Salt, sweet, fat.
I don’t care about a “Christmas star”
Charlotte sends me an article about the Pinkertons
and robber baron Bezos
I want to organize with Lucy Parsons in Chicago
and discuss new developments
in psychology and aesthetics
with the Munich phenomenologists
to ask Hannah Arendt if
the Vita Activa and the Vita Contemplativa
are really opposed
but I’d be embarrassed to ask
before I’ve finished her book
Last night I lay on the couch
and watched Jos Charles’s talk
on lyric something-or-other
at the Poetry Project
cravenly jealous of trans
academic stars
even though talking with Zach earlier had made me remember
that I don’t want to be famous, just ‘part of the conversation’
(I’m not sure why that bit needs scare quotes)
but despite my resolve not to become bitter
I am, occasionally, a little bitter
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