Theater video tags: March/April 2022

Aaiún Nin With Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

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In this Astra House virtual event cohosted by Book Culture, Aaiún Nin speaks about their debut poetry collection, Broken Halves of a Milky Sun (Astra House, 2022), with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, author of The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing (Astra House, 2022). Nin’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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House of SpeakEasy Presents Jennifer Croft

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“Everything is untranslatable if what translation means is making something new that stays the same. But that’s not what translation is,” says Jennifer Croft in this House of SpeakEasy video about her origins as a translator and what led her to the Polish language and to work with author Olga Tokarczuk. The Man Booker Prize–winning translator is featured in “Giving Translators Their Due” in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Yanyi on Knowing When to Stop Writing

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In this interview with Charlene Wang for Foster, an online platform for writers to craft stories together, Yanyi discusses answering letters from writers for his online advice column the Reading and his second poetry collection, Dream of the Divided Field (One World, 2022), which is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Angel Dominguez Reads at the Poetry Center

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In this 2021 reading at the Poetry Center in San Francisco State University, Angel Dominguez reads two letters to Diego de Landa from their first poetry collection, Desgraciado (the collected letters) (Nightboat Books, 2022), which is featured in Page One in the March/April 2022 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Copernicus by Paul Tran

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“Who doesn’t know how / doubt lifts the hem of its nightgown // to reveal another inch of thigh / before the face of faith?” In this video filmed at Washington University in St. Louis, Paul Tran reads their poem “Copernicus” featured in their debut collection, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Books, 2022). A profile of Tran written by Rigoberto González is featured in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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