Theater video tags: 5 Over 50

In this Columbia Fiction Foundry event, Parul Kapur reads from her debut novel, Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), and discusses how the Partition of India in 1947 informed her story, as well as her work in journalism, criticism, and publishing in a conversation with Tania Moore. Kapur is featured in “5 Over 50: 2024” in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers editor in chief Kevin Larimer introduces the 2023 cohort of “5 Over 50” debut authors, Alma García, author of All That Rises (University of Arizona Press, 2023); Bernardine “Dine” Watson, author of Transplant (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2023); Tommy Archuleta, author of Susto (Center for Literary Publishing, 2023); Chin-Sun Lee, author of Upcountry (Unnamed Press, 2023); and Donna Spruijt-Metz, author of General Release From the Beginning of the World (Parlor Press, 2023).

“My husband and I had a fight today about pictures—I never like the ones of me, and that pisses him off.” In this reading for Orange Blossom Review, Donna Spruijt-Metz reads her poem “To the Death,” which appears in her debut collection, General Release From the Beginning of the World (Parlor Press, 2023). Spruijt-Metz is featured in “5 Over 50: 2023” in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this event for the House of SpeakEasy’s “Seriously Entertaining” series, David Santos Donaldson celebrates the launch of his debut novel, Greenland (Amistad, 2022), by sharing the story of his reckoning with what it means to be Black in America from the perspective of a native Bahamian and queer artist. Donaldson is featured in “5 Over 50: 2022” in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.