Poets & Writers Celebrates Forty Years
For the past forty years, Poets & Writers has served the nation's
creative writers. Here are some of the highlights of our programs and
events throughout the years.
Multimedia
Watch videos; listen to audio clips, including readings by authors featured in Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin; and view slideshows related to articles and features published in Poets & Writers Magazine.
Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi
For the first installment of our new series Inside Indie Bookstores, Jeremiah Chamberlin travelled to Oxford, Mississippi, to interview Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books. For the past thirty years, the independent bookstore has been a...
Agents & Editors: Jonathan Karp
In the final installment of his long-running series of interviews with publishing professionals, Jofie Ferrari-Adler talked with Jonathan Karp, the publisher and editor in chief of Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group.
Among the many...
Demilitarized Zone: Report From Literary Vietnam
Contributing editor Stephen Morison Jr. recently traveled to Vietnam and spoke with poets and novelists about the challenges they face nearly thirty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War. What his conversations reveal is a complex national...
Agents & Editors: Georges Borchardt
Jofie Ferrari-Adler is back with another installment of his series of interviews with publishing professionals. For the September/October 2009 issue, he visited legendary agent Georges Borchardt at his New York City office and talked with him about...
DIY: How to Stab-Stitch Bind a Chapbook
A companion to our special section on independent presses.
Agents & Editors: Jonathan Galassi
As part of his ongoing series of interviews with publishing professionals, Jofie Ferrari-Adler stopped by the office of Jonathan Galassi, the president and publisher of FSG, and asked him what he would change about his job if he could.
Zak Smith's We Did Porn
This month, Tin House Books is publishing Zak Smith's memoir We Did Porn. Featuring over a hundred drawings by Smith, who received a lot of attention for his 2004 series, "Pictures of What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel ...
A song from Let's Doghouse: A Tribute to Liam Rector
The Dog House Band plays a cover of the traditional folksong "St. James Infirmary." The track was actually recorded in the Doghouse, a residence on the Bennington College campus. Ben Hartlage, vocal and rhythm guitar; Sven Birkerts, acoustic guitar...
Victoria Reichelt’s Bookshelf Paintings
Inspired by the idea that bookshelves offer a glimpse into their owner’s personal life and interests, last year Australian artist Victoria Reichelt undertook a series of oil-on-canvas paintings based on photographs of random shelves and collections...
You Are Not Alone: Video Postcard From New York City
Scenes from the You Are Not Alone event on May 30: SMITH magazine’s Six-Word Memoirists read from Love and Heartbreak; Matthew Caws of Nada Surf performs the band’s song “Weightless”; and Amy Tan explores the nuances of the e-mail...
Lit Crawl: Video Postcard From New York City
Scenes from the second-annual Lit Crawl NYC on May 13: Cofounder
Todd Zuniga talks about why the event is important; two BOMB-aoke! performers act
out an interview between artists Kiki Smith and Chuck Close; author Tao Lin
discusses the fine art of...
The Café Review: Publishing Poetry in Portland, Maine
Covers, photographs, correspondence from contributors, and other ephemera from the archive of Steve Luttrell, the founding editor of the Café Review, a twenty-year-old literary journal in Portland, Maine.
Several Gravities by Keith Waldrop
A selection of collages from the new book published by the independent Siglio Press.
Small Press Point Erasures
Matthew Gallant, an English teacher at Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow, New Hampshire, wrote to us just before the new year with a story of how he struggled to get his students to do something constructive during the two days before...
A poem by Ross Gay from From the Fishouse
Ross Gay reads his poem “Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait” which appears in From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, forthcoming in April from Persea Books,...
A poem by Patrick Rosal from From the Fishouse
Patrick Rosal reads his poem "Uncommon Denominators," which appears in From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, forthcoming in April from Persea Books, an...
A poem by Adrian Blevins from From the Fishouse
Adrian Blevins reads her poem "Why the Marriage Failed," which appears in From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, forthcoming in April from Persea Books, an...
A poem from Yellowrocket by Todd Boss
Todd Boss reads "How It Must Have Been for Him," a poem from Yellowrocket, published by Norton in November. Boss is one of twelve poets featured in "First and Foremost" (January/February 2009), our fourth annual roundup of debut poets.
Richard Baker's Book Portraits
As more readers choose a nifty gadget like the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader over a hefty new hardcover; a simple e-mail from a subscription service like DailyLit over a letterpress chapbook; or a flashy iPhone application such as Stanza over...
Literary Myanmar
Despite its poverty and dispiriting censorship, Myanmar is a highly literate country. Last spring freelance writer Stephen Morison Jr. traveled to Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, to visit its many bookstores and interview some of the local...
A poem from Everyday People by Kevin Coval
Kevin Coval reads "The Meaning of Children," a poem from his second collection, Everyday People, recently published by EM Press in Chicago. Coval is the cofounder of Chicago's Louder Than a Bomb, the largest youth poetry festival in the world...
Writing Spaces
We asked readers to submit photos of their writing spaces.
The creative
habitats captured in these images reflect each writer's unique approach
to finding inspiration, motivation, and focus.
An excerpt from Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring by Zach Plague
Zach Plague reads an excerpt from his first novel, Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring, published in August by Featherproof Books.
Part 7: A yard of mummies Adelaide was at her old school standing in the hall outside Ms...
The Novels of David Rhodes
A bibliography of David Rhodes, the author of four novels, including Driftless, published this month by Milkweed Editions.