Read a review of Orlandersmith’s “brave and heartfelt” one woman performance here.

The application process for Creative Capital Emerging Fields Awards begins February 2, 2015. Submit a letter of inquiry before March 2, 2015 to be considered for this great opportunity for emerging writers!

See his favorite poetry collections of the last year, to read in the new one.

Read the novelist’s memories of decoding and dreaming about the West from Beijing in the 1980s. 

Rhyming April Bernard with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Frazier writes a cheery and dark salute to the year’s end in The New Yorker.

Pinckney writes on racism in the U.S. and the roots of black organizing “In Ferguson” for The New York Review of Books. 

Stories on the poet and nonfiction writer’s starkly different writing landscapes: The Bering Sea and the island of Haiti. 

The Minneapolis-based theater has presented McCraney’s Brother/Sister Plays and will present Choir Boy in June 2015.

Read “Metaphor of the Falling Cat,” on comic books, the toll of injury, and a cat named Lucky Joe.

“I have never been arrested. And yet isn't the threat of an arrest always breathing over my shoulder and over the shoulder of someone who looks like me?" Read his discussion with Lauren Cerand on identity, reading, arrests, cafés, and syllables.