Fiction Craft Capsule: Edward Kelsey Moore
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Novelist Edward Kelsey Moore delivers a craft talk called "Making Up the Truth: Using Real-Life Experiences to Enrich Fiction" at Poets & Writers Live in Chicago.
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Theater video tags: 2015
Poetry Craft Capsule: Roger Reeves
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Poet Roger Reeves delivers a craft talk called “The Work of Art in the Age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston” at Poets & Writers Live in Chicago.
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Editors Panel: Chicago
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Melissa Faliveno, associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks with the editors of literary magazines and small presses about the kind of work they publish, along with practical advice for writers looking to submit their work and tips for how to establish successful working relationships with editors. Panelists include Adrienne Gunn of TriQuarterly, Jeff Pfaller of Midwestern Gothic, Don Share of Poetry magazine, and Ben Tanzer of Curbside Splendor.
Perfect Pitch Panel: Chicago
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Agents Jeff Kleinman of Folio Literary Management and Renée Zuckerbrot of the Renée Zuckerbrot Literary Agency join publicist Michael Taeckens and Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine, for a conversation about how authors can make a good impression—in query letters, book proposals, and even at social gatherings. A select group of audience members are invited on stage for a critique of their query letters—and one writer gets a special surprise.
Li-Young Lee Poetry Keynote: Chicago
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Poet Li-Young Lee gives the poetry keynote at Poets & Writers Live Chicago in June 2015.
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Carol
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Carol, based on the novel The Price of Salt (Coward-McCann, 1952) by Patricia Highsmith, premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where actress Rooney Mara tied for Best Actress. The film is directed by Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Phyllis Nagy.
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The Singing Knives
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"Jimmy ran down the road / With the knife in his mouth / He was naked / And the moon / Was a dead man floating down the river..." Listen to "The Singing Knives," a poem by Frank Stanford, read by his good friend Bill Willett. Stanford's posthumous collection What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) is shortlisted for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Maggie Nelson
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"I feel like a subject chooses you—chooses me—probably based out of reading and life, both." Maggie Nelson talks about the process of writing her most recent book, The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), in an interview with Leah Newsom at the 2015 NonfictioNow Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona. Nelson is a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for the criticism prize.
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Margo Jefferson
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"It's an exploration, an homage, and a critique." Margo Jefferson talks to Jeffrey Brown about her memoir, Negroland (Pantheon, 2015), at the 2015 Miami Book Fair. Jefferson is a finalist in the autobiography category for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Tessa Hadley
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"As a writer, I love the irresponsibility of the short story.... There's something beautifully free and single gesture about writing a short story." Tessa Hadley, author of the new novel, The Past (Harper, 2016), and whose work appears in The Penguin Book of the British Short Story (Penguin, 2015), talks about her experience writing both short stories and novels.
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