Theater video tags: March/April 2024

In this Politics and Prose event, award-winning author Tommy Orange reads from his second novel, Wandering Stars (Knopf, 2024), and discusses the musicality of language and the challenge of writing about trauma in a conversation with Kaveh Akbar. Wandering Stars is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this New York Public Library event, Man Booker International Prize–winning translator Jennifer Croft discusses her debut novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey (Bloomsbury, 2024), in a conversation with Daniel Saldaña París. “I feel, as a translator, that I’m always on this mission of seeking an essence, a mysterious thing that can’t really be articulated...something I can capture and reconstitute in my language,” says Croft. Her novel is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this 2023 Key West Literary Seminar event, Megan Giddings and Emily Raboteau discuss the ways in which they write about environmental justice and the climate crisis in a conversation with Nadege Green. Raboteau’s new book, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” (Henry Holt, 2024), is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Brent Ameneyro introduces this 2021 installment of transatlantic conversations between U.S. and U.K. Latinx poets featuring Francisco Aragón and Leo Boix for Curated Conversation(s): A Latinx Poetry Show, a collaboration between the Writer’s Center, Un Nuevo Sol, Poet Lore, and Letras Latinas. For more from Aragón, the director of Letras Latinas, read this Q&A from the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.