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David Shields talks to ESPN about James Franco’s film adaptation of Shields’s 1999 book Black Planet

All Things Considered gives a beautiful review of Claudia Rankine‘s latest collection, Citizen.

Joshua Ferris wins the International Dylan Thomas Prize.

Read a new poem by Frank Bidart in the latest issue of The New Yorker, and listen to audio of Bidart reading the poem.

“An intense read” proclaims PW about Forrest Gander‘s new novel, “with meditative poems between chapters to complete the package.”

Jericho Brown reads “Heart Condition” from his new collection The New Testament in his interview with PBS NewsHour.

Blue Flower Arts mourns the loss of Galway Kinnell (1927-2014).

Ted Kooser‘s new book of poems calls attention to the intimacies of life through commonplace objects and occurrences.

Citizen: An American Lyric, by  National Book Award Finalist Claudia Rankine, is reviewed in the New Yorker.

Katha Pollitt‘s new book is a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good.