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Fictions & Forms: Danielle Dutton

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As part of the Fictions & Forms reading series hosted by the University of Chicago’s Program in Creative Writing, Danielle Dutton discusses her intricate relationship to genre and form, and reads from her hybrid collection, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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I Buy My Monster Roses by Diannely Antigua

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“I sniff the tops of the rose heads / like a newborn’s scalp—fresh skin and hair / only a few days picked.” In this video, Diannely Antigua reads “I Buy My Monster Roses” from her second poetry collection, Good Monster (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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An Evening With Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi

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In this video, South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon reads with her longtime translator Don Mee Choi, both sharing their work and speaking about their writing and collaboration with Susan Bernofsky, director of Literary Translation at Columbia University. Choi’s latest poetry collection, Mirror Nation (Wave Books, 2024), is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

 

Hanif Abdurraqib on There’s Always This Year

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“It was good to write a book where I’m staring at time directly, in a very literal sense.” In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Hanif Abdurraqib talks about the unique writing process for his latest book, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024), the power of nostalgia, and his life in Ohio. Abdurraqib’s new book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Tommy Orange: Wandering Stars

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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.

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Morgan Parker on Her First Book of Essays

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In this event hosted by the Free Library of Philadelphia, Morgan Parker discusses her debut essay collection, You Get What You Pay For (One World, 2024), and the challenges of writing about mental health in a conversation with Shantrelle Lewis. Parker’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Jennifer Croft: The Extinction of Irena Rey

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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.

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Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyoung Ok

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In this Green Apple Books event, Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures (Scribner, 2024), and Cindy Juyoung Ok, author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024), read from their poetry collections and join Aracelis Girmay for a conversation. Ok is featured in an installation of our Ten Questions series and Nguyen’s Root Fractures is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Megan Giddings and Emily Raboteau on Reading and Writing Our Climate Future

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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.

Leslie Jamison on Splinters

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In this interview for the Otherppl With Brad Listi podcast, Leslie Jamison discusses important relationships throughout her life and how she sought to capture them in her memoir, Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story (Little, Brown, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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