Blessing the Boats: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton, a celebration of the late poet's life and work on the occasion of the posthumous publication of her Collected Poems by BOA Editions, was held on February 21 and featured readings by poets Sherman Alexie, Tina Chang, Toi Derricotte, Michael Dickman, Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nick Flynn, Tonya Foster, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Marie Howe, Dante Micheaux, Sharon Olds, and Tracy K. Smith.

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.

The youngest poet ever selected to write and read the inaugural poem discusses his piece and the experience of delivering it at the inaugural ceremony last week.

Essayist and novelist Geoff Dyer delivered this talk, "The Novelistic Essay and the Essayistic Novel," at the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar in Key West, Florida, earlier this month.

"No one ever signs up to have a mom who is an autobiographical family poet," the poet says as she explains why she waited fifteen years to publish the poems, about the end of her marriage, in Stag's Leap (Knopf), winner of the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize.

Kioni "Popcorn" Marshall, who has been writing poetry since the age of five and performing at New York City venues since she was nine, reads her poem "Love."

The author of When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) and one of the twelve debut poets selected by Rigoberto González to be featured in the current issue of the magazine, reads a poem on the PBS NewHour.

Listen to this 1985 recording of Orson Welles reading “The Secret Sharer," a story by Joseph Conrad. “I think I’m made for Conrad,” Welles once said. “I think every Conrad story is a movie.”

“What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.” Listen to a reading of “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart,” by poet Jack Gilbert, who died on Tuesday in Berkeley, California, at the age of eighty-seven. His Collected Poems was published by Knopf in March.