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“You really have to write as though this will be it, that there won’t be another chance with this, as though paper is scarce.” For this LIVE From NYPL event, award-winning author Colm Tóibín reads from his newest novel, Long Island (Scribner, 2024), and discusses the challenges of writing about extended families in a conversation with Caoilinn Hughes.
In this event for Vancouver Writers Fest’s Incite reading series, Booker Prize–winning author Michael Ondaatje reads from his new poetry collection, A Year of Last Things (Knopf, 2024), and discusses why he returned to poetry after twenty years of writing novels in a conversation with Jenny Penberthy. “The voice was the most important thing to find, that I could speak almost casually in a poem, whereas a novel is more formal and planned.”
In this Brown University Department of Literary Arts event, Xochitl Gonzalez reads from her second novel, Anita de Monte Laughs Last (Flatiron Books, 2024), and discusses writing about Latino art and academia in a conversation with the university’s president Christina H. Paxson.
“If I must die, / you must live / to tell my story…” In this video filmed for the Palestine Festival of Literature, actor Brian Cox reads “If I Must Die” by the late Palestinian poet and English literature professor Refaat Alareer, who died after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on December 6, 2023. Alareer’s posthumous book of the same name will be published in September by OR Books.
In this recent installment of UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series, Brandon Shimoda reads a selection of poems and essays with the theme of “oranges,” which address the memory of Japanese American incarceration and war.
“The age of portrait is drugged. Beauty / is symmetry so rare it’s a mystery.” In this 2018 event, Fady Joudah reads a selection of poems from his collection Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance (Milkweed Editions, 2018) for the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley. Joudah is the recipient of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize.
“I sniff the tops of the rose heads / like a newborn’s scalp—fresh skin and hair / only a few days picked.” In this video, Diannely Antigua reads “I Buy My Monster Roses” from her second poetry collection, Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this video, South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon reads with her longtime translator Don Mee Choi, both sharing their work and speaking about their writing and collaboration with Susan Bernofsky, director of Literary Translation at Columbia University. Choi’s latest poetry collection, Mirror Nation (Wave Books, 2024), is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this video, Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die (One World, 2022), Jos Charles, author of A Year & Other Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), and Sam Sax, author of Pig (Scribner, 2023), read a selection of their poems for this Beyond Baroque event in Venice, California.
In this video, Thierry Kehou, director of Programs & Partnerships at Poets & Writers, hosts a celebratory reading by the 2023 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career authors. Introduced by publicist May-Zhee Lim, readers include Christina Cooke, Alisa Alering, Kathya Alexander, Esinam Bediako, Marissa Higgins, Parul Kapur, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Jessie Marshall, Lynn Stansbury, and Lena Valencia.
