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.

Hyperallergic‘s John Yau features Sawako Nakayasu this weekend here.

And Douglas Kearney talks about Fred Moten on NPR here.

Listen to Fred Moten (as well as Fanny Howe, Claudia Rankine, and all other longlisted poets for the National Book Award last year) read for National Poetry Month here.

Fred Moten, along with Phil Klay and John Corey Whaley, appeared at Sam Houston State to talk about their work. Video from the National Book Foundation is here.

Alice Notley’s Benediction and The Letter Machine Book of Interviews (edited by Cristiana Baik and Andy Fitch) are coming out in June 2015.

Brandon Shimoda’s Evening Oracle will appear in October 2015.

We’ll hold an open reading period this summer (July 2015) to determine what will appear in 2016, alongside Fred Moten’s Newarkansas.

Fred Moten’s The Feel Trio was  a finalist for both the National Book Award in Poetry and the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry.