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In this 2021 virtual craft talk hosted by the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama, author and professor Victoria Redel speaks about narrative structure and the use of collage in fiction and how fragmented, nonlinear storytelling can deepen emotional impact and thematic complexity.
In this 2021 video, Jessica Jacobs reads David Wagoner’s poem “Lost” and talks about why she chose it for “The Poem I Wish I Had Read” series produced by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. Jacobs’s new poetry collection, unalone, was published in March by Four Way Books.
Palestinian poet and scholar Mosab Abu Toha reads his poems and discusses his life as a writer in Gaza for this 2021 virtual event moderated by Refqa Abu-Remaileh and hosted by the Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance research collective and lecture series. The author of the award-winning book Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights Books, 2022) was detained by Israeli Defense Forces while trying to leave Gaza after his home was bombed, and was later released.
“Is it any wonder our lips feel so lonesome these long evenings?” Phil Kaye reads his poem “Summer / New York City,” which appears in his collection Date & Time (Button Poetry, 2018), in this 2021 event with accompaniment by The Westerlies at Little Island in New York City.
In this virtual reading for the Common’s 2021 Festival of Debut Authors, Cleo Qian reads from her short story “Monitor World,” which appears in her debut story collection, Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go (Tin House, 2023). Qian is featured in Literary MagNet in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“I am now at the age where my father calls me brother / when we say goodbye.” In this Voices Underground video, Joshua Bennett reads his poem “America Will Be,” which appears in his collection Owed (Penguin, 2020), for the 2021 Chester County Juneteenth Festival at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. For more from Bennett, read his essay “A Shed Full of Golden Shovels” from our Craft Capsules series.
Catherine Lacey reads from her latest novel, Biography of X (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), and Miriam Toews reads from her latest novel, Fight Night (Bloomsbury, 2021), in this Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series event at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
“At one time, / I asked for everything.” Sandra Lim reads from her poetry collection The Curious Thing (Norton, 2021) for this virtual reading hosted by UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems reading series with an introduction by poet Noah Warren. Lim is the recipient of the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize.
“I think this year I’ll wait for the white lilacs / before I get too sad.” For the Paris Review’s “Poets on Couches” video series, poet Cheswayo Mphanza reads and discusses the late Gerald Stern’s poem “Leaving Another Kingdom.”
“I think of literature as a science that really cares about experiments, you can consider the wildest ideas, and you can play with theories that are wrong, that are delirious and insane.” Chilean novelist Benjamín Labatut, author of When We Cease to Understand the World (New York Review of Books, 2021), translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, speaks with his Danish translator Peter Adolphsen for this Louisiana Channel interview.
