Fred Moten’s talk on Blackness and Poetry is up online now here at Art & Education.

Both Alice Notley’s Benediction and Brandon Shimoda’s Evening Oracle were best-sellers in the top 20 at Small Press Distribution last month.

Brandon Shimoda’s Evening Oracle has arrived on another year-end best-of list, this time over at LitHub. In stellar company with Amiri Baraka, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and Daniel Borzutsky as well.

Here’s Fred Moten’s “On Marjorie Perloff” at Entropy.

Both Alice Notley’s Benediction and Brandon Shimoda’s Evening Oracle are named among the top fifty poetry collections of 2015 at Entropy.

Both Brandon Shimoda’s Evening Oracle and Alice Notley’s Benediction have broken in the top ten best sellers at Small Press Distribution for November 2015.

After long deliberation, Letter Machine Editions has selected Renee Angle’s WoO to be published in the spring of 2016, followed by Fred Moten’s new book The Service Porch in the fall of 2016. Angle’s WoO is her first book and was ten years in the writing. Moten’s The Service Porch completes a trilogy, beginning with The Feel Trio (Letter Machine 2014) and The Little Edges (Wesleyan 2015). We’re honored to have the opportunity to bring both Renee’s and Fred’s books out next year. Both authors will read for Letter Machine in Los Angeles at the AWP conference at an off-site event at the Ace Hotel in April 2016, so keep your eyes open for that.

A warm thank you to all the folks who submitted to our open reading period. We were staggered to see so much incredible work. It’s that classic thing: we only wish we could do more and are so grateful to all the amazing writers who sent us their work to consider. I also want to thank the incredible folks who read every manuscript: Lisa Wells, Jake Syersak, Brianna Sheaffer, each of whom gave hours and hours for free to this little nonprofit to scour through and offer feedback to the over 200 manuscripts we received. Thank you all.

More about Renee Angle’s work:

WoO is a hagiography written and translated under the spiritual guide of a heretic.  Ten years in the making, WoO (work without opus number) is a creative translation of the first 116 pages of the Book of Mormon that were lost by Joseph Smith, never found, and subsequently rewritten as The Book of Mormon that is now circulated for free around the world in 110 languages.

Renee Angle’s writing has been published in Entropy Magazine, Western Humanities Review, The Volta, Diagram, Practice New Art + Writing, Sonora Review, EOAGH, I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, and in the chapbook Lucy Design in the Papal Flea (dancing girl press). She lives and works in Tucson, AZ, where she is an archivist for The League of Holographic Music and the Education Programs Coordinator for The University of Arizona Poetry Center.

You can pre-order Brandon Shimoda’s new book of poems Evening Oracle, right here for just $14, shipping included. It’ll be in your mailbox in 2-3 weeks.

Glenn Ligon’s 10 Favorite books include Fred Moten’s In The Break for the New York Times.

Here is Alice Notley reading and talking about her work. Her new book Benediction will be out in a matter of days.