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60 Minutes preview of The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

I am very proud to have worked on this book, which publishes on Tuesday February 19, and urge everyone to watch this pre-interview with CBS/60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-m...

The full interview is on 60 Minutes this Sunday, February 17.

The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

Tiana Clark poem on Poetry Daily

Wow, now here's a poem:

http://poems.com/poem.php?date=17932&...

I look forward to reading the book from which it is drawn:

I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

New poems published

Just received the handsome new volumes of This Broken Shore and The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, in which I'm proud to have new poems.

Please consider ordering a copy (or even subscribing) to one or both of these fine journals.

http://www.hsc.edu/poetry-review/curr...

https://www.amazon.com/This-Broken-Sh...

The Sun Does Shine on Oprah's Super Soul Conversations

Here's a wonderful in-depth interview between Oprah Winfrey and Anthony Ray Hinton, in two parts on Super Soul Conversations. Well worth a long listen as the two discuss issues of importance: race, incarceration, the death penalty, the power of reading, faith, and sustaining hope.

https://podtail.com/podcast/oprah-s-s...

https://podtail.com/podcast/oprah-s-s...

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

The Sun Does Shine is the new Oprah Book Club Pick

Thrilling news for this inspiring, powerful, important book:

http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/o...

I am so proud to have worked on this book with Ray Hinton and hope the OBC selection will bring it to the front of our national conversations about race, wrongful incarceration, the death penalty, and the ongoing legacy of slavery. Beyond those issues, the book demonstrates how hope, friendship, faith, imagination, and reading can sustain a body and soul through the most difficult trials of life.

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Ray Hinton on Megyn Kelly TODAY

A powerful interview with Ray Hinton about his book The Sun Does Shine and his experience on death row, by Megyn Kelly on her Megyn Kelly TODAY show:

https://www.today.com/video/wrongfull...

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Great interview with Ray Hinton on Slate

This is a thought-provoking, in-depth interview about surviving 30 years on death row with Ray Hinton, author of The Sun Does Shine, just posted on Slate:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2...

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Points North by Howard Frank Mosher

What a privilege to attend one of the launch events for Points North, hosted by Thomas Christopher Greene at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and featuring readings from the book--and anecdotes about Howard--by Richard Russo, Chris Bohjalian, Garret Keizer, Don Bredes, and Jake Mosher.

I attended to their memories and to Howard's words and was reminded again of the power of stories: to entertain, to move, to recollect, to pass down, to connect us with each other, alone or in a crowd, as we listen together.

Points North is both the final book by and the perfect introduction to this essential American storyteller.

Points North: Stories

New poem "Night Swimming" in The Yale Review

The new Winter 2018 issue of The Yale Review offers a rich and varied selection of fiction, poetry, and essays; I'm proud to have my poem "Night Swimming" included.

https://yalereview.yale.edu/night-swi...

Please consider ordering a copy or subscribing.

New poem "Constellations" in Valparaiso Poetry Review

Another new poem just out in Valparaiso Poetry Review, titled "Constellations":

https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poet...

This poem arrived almost whole after I saw the Calder and Miro exhibits of their respective "Constellations" at the Pace and Acquavella galleries last spring 2017. The Miro in particular moved me: 23 small paintings of intimately meticulous texture, exhibited together for the first time in decades, which Miro painted under great stress as he and his family moved from place to place during World War II. In many of the paintings and in their titles Miro embedded lines of poems, to beguiling, wistful, humorous, dramatic, and sometimes erotic effect.