Theater video tags: May/June 2025

Sing the Truth: Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat, and Princess Joy L. Perry

#PouredOver: Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat and Princess Joy L. Perry discuss Sing the Truth

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Laura Pegram, Edwidge Danticat, and Princess Joy L. Perry discuss the making of the anthology Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection (Authors Equity, 2025) and talk about the importance of finding and nurturing emerging writers of color in this live episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer. Read more about the anthology in “The Anthologist” in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Edwidge Danticat

Princess Joy L. Perry

Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection

Super Gay Poems

Super Gay Poems with Stephanie Burt and Special Guests | LIVE from NYPL

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In this Live From NYPL event, Stephanie Burt discusses the work of editing Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall (Belknap Press, 2025), an anthology of fifty-one poems with essays by Burt, in a conversation with David Groff, along with poets Marisa Crawford, Mark Doty, Marilyn Hacker, and Jee Leong Koh reading and discussing their poems. The anthology is featured in “The LGBTQ+ Literary Resistance” in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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P&W Live: Douglas Kearney in Conversation With Destiny O. Birdsong

I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always: Douglas Kearney in Conversation With Destiny O. Birdsong

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In this Poets & Writers Live event introduced by Poets & Writers Magazine features editor India Lena González, Douglas Kearney reads from his new poetry collection, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always (Wave Books, 2025), and joins Poets & Writers Magazine contributing editor Destiny O. Birdsong for a conversation. A profile of Kearney by Birdsong appears in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Poetry

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I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always

Lydia Millet: Atavists

Lydia Millet: "Atavists: Stories"

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In this Enoch Pratt Free Library event in Baltimore, Lydia Millet reads from her story collection Atavists (Norton, 2025) and discusses the humor in her writing in a conversation with Betsy Boyd. Atavists is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Enoch Pratt Free Library

Betsy Boyd

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May/June 2025

Yuki Tanaka: Chronicle of Drifting

Yuki Tanaka reads an excerpt from the title poem in Chronicle of Drifting.

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“If only the sky were kind enough to lend me his blue coat.” In this video, Yuki Tanaka reads an excerpt from the title poem of his debut collection, Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Poetry

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Yuki Tanaka

Chronicle of Drifting

Copper Canyon Press

Page One

May/June 2025

History of Display by Rob Macaisa Colgate

Rob Macaisa Colgate Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellow Reading

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In this Lambda Literary video, Rob Macaisa Colgate reads “History of Display,” which appears in his debut poetry collection, Hardly Creatures (Tin House Books, 2025). The collection is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Poetry in the Park: Aleena Ahmed, Ajamou Butler, Steven Espada Dawson, and Margaret Rozga

Poetry Reading: Poetry in the Park | July 9, 2024

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In this Poetry in the Park event in Milwaukee’s Juneau Park hosted by Juneau Park Friends and Woodland Pattern, poets Aleena Ahmed, Ajamou Butler, Steven Espada Dawson, and Margaret Rozga read a selection of poems. Dawson, author of Late to the Search Party (Scribner, 2025), is featured in Literary MagNet in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Late to the Search Party

Literary MagNet

May/June 2025

Q&A With Jennifer Acker of the Common

Q & A with Jennifer Acker, Editor of The Common

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Jennifer Acker, founder and editor in chief of the Common, answers questions about the journal’s mission, slush piles, and her editorial process in this virtual event with Becky Tuch for the Lit Mag News Roundup. An interview with Acker about the Common’s fifteenth anniversary is featured in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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