“Kicks,” a nine-page previously unpublished work in progress poem written and dated 1976 by Tennesse Williams. In the poem, Williams revisits his iconic character Blanche DuBois. Neri unearthed the manuscript while doing research for her play/screenplay Unlocking Desire, in The Historic New Orleans Collection. Published in The Tennessee Williams Annual Review (Number 20, 2021), The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Go to the Publisher's site.
"Loving Thee Better after Death: Tennessee Williams's Allusion to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her Sonnets from the Portuguese in his A Streetcar Named Desire." Originally presented at a Victorian Institute Conference, 3 April 2005 at UNC, Greensboro. Essay and illustration published in The Tennessee Williams Annual Review (Number 17, 2018), The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Click here to go to The Publishers Site.
The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 5 Volumes (March 2010, Pickering and Chatto, Routledge). Go to The Publishers Site.
Sandra Donaldson, Project Director and general editor; editorial associate Jane Stewart; editors Rita S. Patteson, Marjorie Stone, and Beverly Taylor; associate editors Simon Avery, Cynthia A. Burgess, Clara Drummond, Barbara Neri, and Elizabeth Woodworth. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
"INFINITE FIELD (Dance Drawing)," Artist Pages in Performance Research (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group) Volume 13, No 1 (March 2008) 'On Choreography.' To access this article go to the online publications platform for the Taylor & Francis Group.
"Cobridme de flores: (Un)covering flowers of Portuguese and Spanish poets in Sonnets from the Portuguese," Victorian Poetry (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University, Dept. of English.) Volume 44 (Winter 2006). Click here to Access this article online.
"Matter of Life & Death (Bolero)." STIMULUS-Respond, # 13 "Food" (August 2006) Cover image and pages 68-72 of online e-zine. Scroll down on the Matter of Life & Death (Bolero) page to find a link to a PDF of Neri's article.
"Sonnet 1 and Sonnet 2 of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese: Setting the Stage for Divine Reunification." Studies in Browning and His Circle (Waco, Texas: Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University) Volume 26 (September 2005). Contact the Library for copies of this journal. .
"10 Dream Drawings." Performance Research (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group) Volume 9, No 1, March 2004. See a pdf of Neri's Artist Pages here.
"The Consolation of Poetry." The Drama Review (New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Volume 47 Number 3 (T179), Fall 2003. See this issue of TDR at MIT Press Journals and download a copy of Neri's script. Read the Abstract. Explore The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Project.
"A Lineage of Love: The Literary Bloodlines of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from The Portuguese." Studies in Browning and His Circle (Waco, Texas: Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University). Volume 23 (May 2000). Contact the Library for copies of this journal.
"The Animal Question, an interview with Rachel Rosenthal." P-form (Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago). Number 36 (Summer 1995). (P-form is no longer in print, please contact Ms. Neri for a pdf copy.)
"How did the arts get taken from the people?" Agenda (Agenda Publications, Ann Arbor, Michigan). Number 104, July 1995. (Agenda is no longer in print, please contact Ms. Neri for a copy.)
POETS IN LOVE - A book exploring Elizabeth Barrett Browning's enduringly popular forty-four love sonnets, Sonnets from the Portuguese. Find more information here Sonnets from the Portuguese
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE - Feature length, Period Drama / Romance / History (©2016 and ©2017 Library of Congress and WGAe). Sonnets from the Portuguese was quarterfinalist in the CineStory Foundation 2016 Feature Fellowhip competition, and in the top 15% of all 2022 entries in the prestigous Academy Nicholl Fellowships competition. Find more information at Sonnets from the Portuguese, and on Barbara Neri's IMDB page..
UNLOCKING DESIRE - Feature length, Drama / Mystery / LGBTQIA+ (©2017 Library of Congress and WGAe).A screen adaptation of Barbara Neri's 2011 play. Neri's Unlocking Desire screenplay adaptation won the 2017 Marfa Film Festival screenplay competition; and was a quarterfinalist in the CineStory Foundation 2017 Feature Fellowhip competition. Read more here Unlocking Desire.
THE FORGOTTEN FRONT - Feature length, Drama / History / Romance / WWII / LGBTQIA+ (©2019 Library of Congress and WGAe). The Forgotten Front was a 2021 quarterfinalist in the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships competion: One of 360 entries to emerge from an all-time high of 8,191 screenplays submitted. Find more here The Forgotten Front.
"Creating Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Image on Stage and Screen: from The Barretts of Wimpole Street to The Forgotten Front." Neri's paper presented at the 2019 North American Victorian Studies Association conference held in Columbus OH, October 17-19.
Unlocking Desire A Playscript ©2005-2011. Produced by Khoros in Detroit at the Marlene Boll Theater Sept 23-Oct 8, 2011. Read about this performance and other readings and development of Unlocking Desire and the 2017 screenplay adaptaion.
"She Blinded me with Science: Goethe's Theory of Color and the Embodiment of Sight in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese." Neri's paper
presented at the 2010 North American Victorian Studies Association conference held in Montreal, Canada Nov 11-13.
Creating Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Image: What She Wore and What it Means. Presented before a Joint Meeting of the Boston Browning Society & the New England chapter of The Costume Society of America, April 18, 1999 at Prescott House, Beacon Hill, Boston MA. Updated to include EBB's 1858 image, engraved and used for the 4th edition of her Aurora Leigh, and presented at The Armstrong Browning Library February 11, 2012.
Read Beverly Taylor's review of Barbara Neri’s article: Tennessee Williams's Allusion to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her Sonnets from the Portuguese in his A Streetcar Named Desire." Taylor, Beverly. Victorian Poetry, volume 56 # 3, fall 2018 (p. 302)
John Quinn's CBS Detroit, September 27, 2011 review of the premiere production of "Unlocking Desire": Unlocking the Past; Unlocking the Future. Read a review of a reading of "Unlocking Desire" at the Renegade Theater Festival: Helma, Tom, Lansing City Pulse, August 25, 2010. Renegade-Recap
Alison Chapman's review "Revolutionizing Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning." Victorian Literature and Culture (2011) 39, Cambridge Univ. Press (605-611). Cites Barbara Neri's contribution to Sonnets from the Portuguese. Read the quote here.
Marjorie Stone review of "Cobridme de flores: (Un)covering flowers of Portuguese and Spanish poets in Sonnets from the Portuguese."
Stone, Marjorie. Victorian Poetry, volume 45 # 3, fall 2007 (267-268).
Marjorie Stone review of the script for Barbara Neri's one woman show "The Consolation of Poetry."
Stone, Marjorie. Victorian Poetry, vol. 42, no. 3, fall 2004 (340-41). Read the review here.
Frances Madeson review of Barbara Neri's August 2005 performances of "The Consolation of Poetry" at The Mazer Theater, NY, NY.
Marjorie Stone review of "A Lineage of Love: The literary bloodlines of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese."
Stone, Marjorie. Victorian Poetry, volume 39 # 3, fall 2001 (443).
Readers may be able to access the Victorian Poetry reviews at this site: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_poetry/