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In this Green Apple Books event, Madison Davis reads from her essay collection, The Loved Ones: Essays to Bury the Dead (Dzanc Books, 2023), which is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, and speaks about hope in the face of grief with author Ivy Johnson.
In this recorded event, Terrance Hayes, Claudia Rankine, and Ocean Vuong, acclaimed authors and professors at New York University’s Creative Writing Program, read from their work and participate in a conversation together for a packed audience at NYU Skirball. Rankine is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize.
“I am afraid / that the mouths I feed will turn against me / will refuse to swallow in the silence / I am warning them to avoid.” Audre Lorde reads her poem “Blackstudies,” which appears in her book New York Head Shop and Museum (Broadside Press, 1974), in this video from the Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives collection at San Francisco State University.
“In Lagos, we name our girls / Darling, Sincere, Precious, because / A name is a stake in the grave.” Omotara James reads her poem “Half Girl, Then Elegy,” which appears in her collection, Song of My Softening (Alice James Books, 2022), for this virtual reading with Charif Shanahan and Maggie Smith, hosted by Kaveh Akbar, poetry editor of the Nation.
“Books sustain us. Books inspire us. Books fortify us. Books help us become who we are,” says poet John Keene in this video featuring National Book Award–winning authors—including Tess Gunty, Megan McDowell, Imani Perry, Samanta Schweblin, and Sabaa Tahir—speaking about why they believe books matter for the National Book Foundation’s Read With NBF program.
Introduced by Timothy Donnelly, Tracie Morris, Sophie Herron, and Ricardo Maldonado, the winners of 92NY’s 2023 Discovery Poetry Contest—Lucas Jorgensen, Saba Keramati, Jenna Lanzaro, and JJ Peña—read selected poems for this celebratory reading. “I open my mouth. Instead of a scream, a hundred / jasmine petals take wing,” reads Keramati from her poem “The Dream.”
“I am now at the age where my father calls me brother / when we say goodbye.” In this Voices Underground video, Joshua Bennett reads his poem “America Will Be,” which appears in his collection Owed (Penguin, 2020), for the 2021 Chester County Juneteenth Festival at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. For more from Bennett, read his essay “A Shed Full of Golden Shovels” from our Craft Capsules series.
In this event hosted by Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, poets and professors Erica Hunt, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Matthew Shenoda, and Mary-Kim Arnold share their work and discuss their creative processes in a conversation moderated by Lisa Biggs.
Catherine Lacey reads from her latest novel, Biography of X (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), and Miriam Toews reads from her latest novel, Fight Night (Bloomsbury, 2021), in this Christopher Lightfoot Walker Reading Series event at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
In this 2007 Talks at Google event, Aimee Bender, the author of the short story collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (Doubleday, 1998) and Willful Creatures (Doubleday, 2005), reads from her work and discusses her writing regimen, favorite books, and her love of short stories.
