Theater video tags: 2021

A Conversation With Mosab Abu Toha

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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.

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America Will Be

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“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 and Miriam Toews at 92Y

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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.

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Benjamín Labatut on Literature and Science

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“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.

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Hard Hat Reading Series: Asiya Wadud

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In this video for the Poets House Hard Hat Reading series, Asiya Wadud, author of No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books, 2021), reads from Inger Christensen’s alphabet (New Directions, 2001), translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied, followed by her own poem “L.”

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Lunch Poems With Alex Dimitrov

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“I don’t want to sound unreasonable / but I need to be in love immediately.” In this video, Alex Dimitrov reads a selection of poems from his collection Love and Other Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2021) for UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems reading series. “Twelve Films That Put Me in the Mood to Write” by Dimitrov appears in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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