06/01/2026
"Though 'The Manifest' is my poem of Idaho written in Idaho, someone else wrote Idaho long ago. Thus the eponymous poem is not only anonymous but an exquisite co**se, a shared writing of the world . . ."
In our latest Writer's Notebook feature, poet Oscar Oswald interrogates systems of authority and reveals the origins of his poem "The Manifest," from NER 47.1.
Read the essay here: https://nereview.com/writers-notebook-oscar-oswald/