at Open House with Housten Donham here.

Here’s Elizabeth Willis’s review of The Feel Trio and The Little Edges by Fred Moten in the Boston Review.

“And, as my friend the critic and poet Fred Moten has written: “I believe in the world and want to be in it. I want to be in it all the way to the end of it because I believe in another world and I want to be in that.” This other world, that world, would presumably be one where black living matters. But we can’t get there without fully recognizing what is here.” Claudia Rankine in the New York Times June 22, 2015.

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Our own Fred Moten won the Gold Medal in Poetry from the California Book Awards. At last month’s ceremony, publisher Joshua Marie Wilkinson accepted the award in San Francisco on Fred’s behalf. Watch the video here on YouTube. Congratulations to Fred Moten!

Alice Notley: “I have another book coming out this year, from Letter Machine, called Benediction, that is 15 years old and is a rather massive single work. It vibrates all over itself, it just vibrates—I don’t know how else to describe it. But partway through my writing of it my husband, Douglas Oliver, became ill with cancer and, just as I was completing the book, died. So it has been difficult for me to face this poem.” Read the full interview here.

Congratulations to Fred Moten for winning the Gold Medal in Poetry from the 84th California Book Award.

Congratulations to Alice Notley on winning the Ruth Lily Prize this year! Her new Letter Machine book–Benediction- should be out in June 2015!

Here is Fred Moten and here is Bhanu Kapil, introduced by Jackie Wang at Harvard.

Along with Douglas Kearney and Claudia Rankine, Fred Moten’s book The Feel Trio is named a finalist in poetry for the California Book Award. Winners are announced in San Francisco on June 1, 2015.