Theater video tags: 2018

Richard Powers and Barbara Kingsolver

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“You don’t need a lot of sensitivity or soul to feel moved by a redwood forest,” says Richard Powers about the origins of his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Overstory (Norton, 2018). In this 92nd Street Y video, Powers joins Barbara Kingsolver, author of the novel Unsheltered (HarperCollins, 2018), for a reading and conversation with Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine. The authors were featured in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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November/December 2018

How Writers Think and Work

How Writers Think & Work: 2018 National Book Festival

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At the 2018 National Book Festival, Lorrie Moore, author of See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary (Knopf, 2018), and Richard Russo, author of The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life (Knopf, 2018), speak about humor and storytelling with Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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National Book Festival

Erling Kagge

Hay Festival Cartagena 2018 - Interview with Erling Kagge

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“I think we’re all born explorers. When I look at my kids, they want to climb before they can walk,” says Erling Kagge in this interview with Santiago Rivas Camargo from the 2018 Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia. Kagge’s new book, Walking: One Step at a Time (Pantheon Books, 2019), translated from the Norwegian by Becky L. Crook, is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Walking: One Step at a Time

Stepping Out of the Light

Forrest Gander — The Poetry Center

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“Forgive / yourself, they say, but / after you forgive / what you have lived, / what is left?” At San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center, Forrest Gander reads “Stepping Out of the Light” from his collection Be With (New Directions, 2018), for which he won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize award in poetry.

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Poetry Center at SFSU

Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

Must Read Book of the Month Temptation Rag

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“I was inspired to write Temptation Rag originally because my husband’s grandfather is the great Mike Bernard, who was one of the most famous ragtime pianists.” In this video, Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard talks to Arizona Daily Mix’s Pat McMahon about the motivation behind her novel Temptation Rag (Belle Epoque Publishing, 2018). Bernard is featured in the Savvy Self-Publisher in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard

Kim Hyesoon

[Korean Literature Now] Beware when poets and poetry disappear: Interview with Kim Hyesoon

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“Take a microscope to the face of a beautiful woman and tell me it isn’t grotesque. Poetry is such a broad genre, it covers so many ways of looking.” Kim Hyesoon talks about her newest collection, Autobiography of a Death (New Directions, 2018), translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi, what it means to be a female poet, and why she thinks poetry is disappearing in this 2018 interview with the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

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Kim Hyesoon

Don Mee Choi

Autobiography of a Death

New Directions

2018

Literature Translation Institute of Korea

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November/December 2018

Hiromi Itō

Hiromi Itō Interview: On the Moon

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“I’m always watching the moon and the moonlight. But I didn’t write about it.” Japanese poet Hiromi Itō talks about how the moon is linked to the menstrual cycle and her decision to write about menstruation, and reads from her poem “Vinegar, Oil” from Killing Kanoko (Action Books, 2009), translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles, at the 2018 Louisiana Literature festival in Denmark.

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Louisiana Literature Festival

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Jeffrey Angles

Erica Dawson

Why this poet says there is no 'single story spun on a single tongue'

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“The other night, somebody asked, is Black poetry back? Like, we penned one verse, and it got lost at sea or slipped inside a big old crack in the big old earth, and then re-returned when everything was chaos.” In this PBS NewsHour video, Erica Dawson reads a poem about her experience while on tour for her poetry collection When Rap Spoke Straight to God (Tin House Books, 2018).

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Erica Dawson

When Rap Spoke Straight to God

2018

Tin House Books

PBS NewsHour

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the Real-Life Inspiration for Fruit of the Drunken Tree

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“I was very lucky to have family members who are all very outgoing and love to hear people talk about them.” On Late Night With Seth Meyers, Ingrid Rojas Contreras talks about how her family and childhood in Colombia inspired her first novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 2018).

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Doubleday

2018

Late Night With Seth Meyers

Marci Vogel

MARCI VOGEL - Poetry.LA Interview

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“I would read out loud and tried to check in my own breath, in my own body how the sentence was feeling and what kind of experience it was giving me as the first reader.” Marci Vogel reads from her books At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody (Howling Bird Press, 2015) and Death and Other Holidays (Melville House, 2018) and discusses her writing process both with poetry and prose in this Poetry.LA interview with Mariano Zaro.

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Marci Vogel

At the Border of Wilshire & Nobody

Howling Bird

2015

Death and Other Holidays

Melville House

2018

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