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Poet Ish Klein reads "Smoke Outside" from her second collection, Moving Day, published this month by the independent press Canarium Books.
Last month poet Kevin Young read from his most recent collection, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Random House, 2011), at the Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
This brief interview with Amy Hempel, which includes excerpts from her short story "The Harvest," was produced by United States Artists. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel was published by Scribner in 2006.
Last week the National Book Foundation presented the panel discussion "Lineage: American Poetry Since 1950," moderated by Katie Peterson and featuring Elizabeth Alexander, Stephen Burt, Tony Hoagland, James Longenbach, Maureen McLane, and Susan Stewart. The aim of the discussion was "to use the National Book Awards as a point of departure to assess post-War poetry trends and achievements."
From director Cary Fukunaga comes a new vision of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel Jane Eyre. The movie, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender, opened March 11.
The movie Poetry, which was written and directed by South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong, recently won the Regard d'Or Award at the Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland. The movie, about a woman in her sixties who decides to take a poetry class at an adult-education center, also took honors for best screenplay at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
On April 15 Little, Brown will publish The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's final, unfinished novel. In this BBC documentary, Geoff Ward discusses the life and works of the author who committed suicide in 2008, at the age of forty-six. Ward also talks to Wallace's editor, Michael Pietsch, about the difficult task of assembling Wallace's final fragments into The Pale King.
In this clip Daniel Pogue adds stop-motion sewing animation to section 22 of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind." Ferlinghetti turned ninety-two on Thursday.
In celebration of Women's History Month, the folks at Open Road Media put together this clip of some of their authors talking about "the suffragettes, poets, novelists, daughters, and grandmothers whose courage, talent, and dedication serve as daily inspiration in their work."