A Man Within, the documentary about Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs that premieres on the PBS series Independent Lens tonight, explores the late writer's fascination with, among many other things, guns. "Burroughs didn't feel at home unless he had a loaded gun by his side."

This clip features photos of the demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square by Hany Soliman as well as footage of poet Kamal Abdel Halim reciting two poems in protest of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

In this clip from James Wright's Ohio, a documentary by Tom Koba and Larry Smith that is being reissued on DVD later this month by Bottom Dog Press, the late poet William Matthews speaks to the importance of place in Wright's work.   

Fiction writer Reynolds Price, who died on January 20, 2011 at the age of seventy-seven, is the subject of a new documentary, Pass It On, which takes a look at the impact the late author had on his students at Duke University, where he taught writing and the poetry of Milton for more than fifty years.

This documentary about a wannabe poet who sets off on a quest for answers about writing, featuring interviews with literary figures such as Nick Flynn, D.A. Powell, George Saunders, and David Sedaris, opened in select cities on Friday.

A newly released two-DVD set, One Tough Mother, combines the films made of Charles Bukowski’s last two readings—in Vancouver in 1979 and in Redondo Beach, California, in 1980. The author of more than sixty books, Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9, 1994.

In the September/October 2009 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, we published the essay "Taking It to the Streets: My Year in Guerrilla Publishing" in which Mike Heppner writes about his trajectory from commercially published author to small press author to self-published, D-I-Y author. In this video, Heppner describes the final stage of his Man Talking Project: hand-delivering his manuscript to one of his readers.