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"Caress what can't be blessed, cup shadows under breasts." Poet Sharon Dolin reads from her sixth collection, Manual for Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), which is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
"He will give me these hands, my perfect empty nests." Rita Mae Reese reads a selection of poems at the Crosshatxh reading series in 2011. Her second collection, The Book of Hulga (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016), is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Darryl Pinckney, author of the new novel, Black Deutschland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), reads from "In Ferguson," an essay he wrote for the New York Review of Books on witnessing the demonstrations occurring in Ferguson, Missouri, in November 2014.
"The days pass very slowly leading up to our departure for the autumn palace." Alexander Chee reads from his new novel, The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), at the Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn.
"'Old people,' whispers Anna to her brother, 'are actually half robot. Only a robot could walk that slow.'" Amber Sparks reads "Cocoon" from her first story collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies (Curbside Splendor, 2012). Her second story collection, The Unfinished World: And Other Stories (Liveright, 2016), explores star-crossed lovers, taxidermists, time travelers, and space janitors.
In this video from 2013, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet James Tate reads a selection of poems for the Mishi-Maya-Gat series at Manchester Community College.
"What was I telling you? It was something like this: The world was made exactly for us and we'd never have to leave it." Paul Lisicky reads from his novel The Burning House (Etruscan Press, 2011) for Rosemont College's MFA Reading Series. Lisicky's new memoir, The Narrow Door (Graywolf Press, 2016), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Bill Murray reads work by poets such as Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, and Lorine Niedecker to an audience of construction workers who built the Poets House space in Battery Park City in New York City.
"After conquering / frontiers, the mind comes back to rest, / stretching out over the white sand." At a 92Y event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa reads "Islands" from his poetry collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015), and the Wire actor Wendell Pierce reads from his memoir, The Wind in the Reeds (Riverhead Books, 2015), in which he explores art's ability to redeem his native New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
"The mind must / set itself up / wherever it goes..." So begins the poem "New Rooms" by Kay Ryan from her collection, Erratic Facts (Grove Press, 2015). Ryan is a former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" grant.
