Theater video tags: reading

In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers Magazine features editor India Lena González introduces the five debut authors featured in “First Fiction 2024”: ’Pemi Aguda, author of Ghostroots (Norton, 2024); Jiaming Tang, author of Cinema Love (Dutton, 2024); Michael Deagler, author of Early Sobrieties (Astra House, 2024); Yasmin Zaher, author of The Coin (Catapult, 2024); and Gina María Balibrera, author of The Volcano Lovers (Pantheon, 2024).

In this Magers & Quinn Booksellers event in Minneapolis, Carvell Wallace reads from his debut memoir, Another Word for Love (MCD, 2024), and talks about finding strength in his communities and ancestors, and the transformative power of memory in a conversation with Junauda Petrus.

In this video for the African Speculative Fiction Society, ’Pemi Aguda reads an excerpt from her award-winning short story “Masquerade Season,” which appears in her debut collection, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024). Aguda is featured in “First Fiction 2024” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“On the wall of the room there was a mirror / reflecting back a comical skull that was laughing at itself.” In this bilingual poetry reading, “Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence” is read in the original Spanish by Homero Aridjis and the English translation is read by George McWhirter. Aridjis and McWhirter won the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection of the same name, published by New Directions.