Ander Monson's video interpretation of one of the essays in his 2007 collection, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments (Graywolf Press). "Best watched in the dark, lights off, January in Michigan, real cold," Monson writes on his YouTube channel.

Michael McClure, whose poetry Allen Ginsberg described as "a blob of protoplasmic energy," performs one of his poems as well as one by Emily Dickinson in this clip from 2007. McClure's Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems, which includes an introduction by the late Leslie Scalapino, is out this month from the University of California Press.

In this clip the actor, filmmaker, and author of No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007) and It Chooses You (McSweeney's, 2011), among other books, offers a helpful strategy for avoiding procrastination.

The poet, who passed away on January 29, is seen here reading "It Was All Right, or What I Learned from Kenneth Koch" at an event sponsored by Rain Taxi Review of Books in Minneapolis in 2007.