On Being
Krista Tippet speaks with Claudia Rankine on race, racism, and whiteness: How can I say this so we can stay in this car together?
NPR
Brilliant reviews of Jericho Brown’s The Tradition and Tina Chang’s Hybrida: America’s poets are stepping up.
Acad Amer Poets
Leading champion of poets and poetry, the Academy named two new Chancellors: poets Joy Harjo and Natasha Trethewey.
The New Yorker
Terrance Hayes reads “American Sonnet for the New Year”: “things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly/things got ugly…”
LitHub
Honor Moor reflects on her new memoir and conjuring her mother: “I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death.”
PBS
Interview with Dunya Mikhail: She stayed there in the garden and refused to move, like a stone. She’s turned into a stone.
The New Yorker
Read George Saunders’ piece “Chicago Christmas, 1984”: The way we knew it was festive was the garage had been cleared of dog shit.
Artforum
Watch this interview with Eileen Myles on their latest Evolution, art installation, and the bodily experience of being in the world.
New York Times
Among other gorgeous titles, Hisham Matar’s The Return included on Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018!
LitHub
Looking forward to all 2019 titles, most especially from the Blue Flowers included here: Jericho, Claudia, Tina, Deborah, and Pam!