Videos from Poets & Writers Magazine

Poet Valzhyna Mort: An American Debut

dp_admin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:15:01 -0400

Follow our cover subject, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort, on her recent trip to New York City. From a Ukranian diner in the East Village to a conference hall in midtown, Mort shares her poetry and talks about the language and people that inspire her work.

Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of Writers at Work

dp_admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:53:11 -0400

Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of Writers at Work, a documentary film directed by Ken Browne, is being aired on public television stations across the country during National Poetry Month. The half-hour film tells the story of late New Hampshire poet Jean Pedrick, who died in July 2006 at the age of eighty-three, and the workshop she hosted at Skimmilk Farm, an abandoned colonial-era dairy farm that her family bought as a summer home in the 1950s.

Selling a Debut Novel: Inside a Bidding War

dp_admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:29:39 -0500

Joanna Smith Rakoff, founding contributor of our column First, describes the process of selling her debut novel, Brooklyn, to Scribner.