Poets & Writers Theater

Learn how to make your own Little Free Library book-sharing box in this short video from the organization, which fosters neighborhood book exchanges around the world. A Q&A with Little Free Library’s new executive director and CEO Daniel Gumnit appears in the May/June 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this trailer for PBS’s American Masters documentary Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined, the life and work of the acclaimed Dominican American poet and novelist is explored through interviews, photographs, and archives. A profile of Alvarez about her new poetry collection, Visitations (Knopf, 2026), appears in the May/June 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this event at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Annie Wenstrup reads from her debut collection, The Museum of Unnatural Histories (Wesleyan University Press, 2025), and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha reads from her latest collection, Something About Living (University of Akron Press, 2024).

In this New York Public Library event celebrating Arab American Heritage Month and National Poetry Month hosted in partnership with the Radius of Arab American Writers, poets Maha Hashwi, Ghinwa Jawhari, Lawrence Joseph, and Kamelya Omayma Youssef read from their work and discuss their writing in a conversation with senior librarian Reuben Gelley Newman.

In this Books Are Magic event, Kim Fu reads from her latest novel, The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts (Tin House, 2026), and talks about how word choices and details shape the loneliness of her worlds in a conversation with Larissa Pham. “You can describe anything in an infinite number of ways,” says Fu.

“Until you have language or history or context, you are in the dark.” In this episode of the Fashion Neurosis podcast hosted by Bella Freud, Hilton Als talks about discovering the power of art and language at an early age, how criticism should come from a place of “critical love,” and writing about Prince in his memoir My Pinup (New Directions, 2022).

In this episode of Literary Hub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast cohosted by V. V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell, Vauhini Vara talks about her New Yorker essay on A.I.-generated fiction and about how technology might change the future of literature with Karan Mahajan, author most recently of The Complex (Viking, 2026).

In this Green Apple Books event, Will Brewer, author of Nocturama (Milkweed Editions, 2026), and Richie Hofmann, author of The Bronze Arms (Knopf, 2026), read from their latest poetry collections and discuss what they have learned from each other as poets and friends.

In this ABC News segment, Joshua Bennett talks about how his parents nurtured his interest in African American history leading him to write his new book, The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time (Little, Brown, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this 2025 event hosted by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, Carl Phillips reads from his most recent collection, Scattered Snows, to the North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), and answers questions about the relationship between the natural world and human experience, and his use of notebooks to collect images.

In this Politics and Prose event, Anne Fadiman reads from her collection Frog: And Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026) and discusses her career pivot from reportage to essays in a conversation with Isaac Arnsdorf. Fadiman’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this installment of UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series, Aracelis Girmay begins with a reading of “Poem of Commitment” by June Jordan followed by a selection of poems from her collections The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016) and Green of All Heads (BOA Editions, 2025).

In this Penguin Random House video, Andy Weir talks about how his novels often emerge from daydreaming, and the origins of his 2021 novel, Project Hail Mary, which has been adapted into a film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and starring Ryan Gosling.

In this City Club of Cleveland event, Namwali Serpell reads from her book On Morrison (Hogarth, 2026) and discusses Toni Morrison’s use of literary forms as well as her frustration with critics during her career in a conversation with poet Kortney Morrow.

In this Politics and Prose event, Lauren Groff reads her short story “Annunciation,” which appears in her new collection, Brawler (Riverhead Books, 2026), and talks about the time and process of putting together a story collection in a conversation with Danielle Evans.

Watch the trailer for the television series Vladimir, adapted from the 2022 novel of the same name by Julia May Jonas. Starring Rachel Weiss and Leo Woodall, the eight-episode series follows a writer and professor who becomes obsessed with a new colleague as her life starts to unravel.

In this Gays Reading podcast interview with host Jason Blitman, T Kira Madden talks about the events that led to writing her debut novel, Whidbey (Mariner Books, 2026), and how exploring different points of view of a crime offered new insights. A profile of Madden appears in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of the Fashion Neurosis podcast hosted by Bella Freud, Abiodun Oyewole talks about the legacy of the spoken word group The Last Poets, the influence of Langston Hughes and Nina Simone, and his thoughts on the poets of today.

In this episode of Cannonball With Wesley Morris, the host speaks with Parul Sehgal, critic at large at the New York Times, and Sasha Weiss, deputy editor at the New York Times Magazine, about the power of Toni Morrison’s writing and they share some of their favorite passages from her novels.

In this episode of the New Social Environment series hosted by the Brooklyn Rail, poets Eve L. Ewing and Andrea Faye Hart read a selection of their poems and join journalist trina reynolds-tyler to discuss how they became co-owners of Build Coffee & Books, a community-centered bookstore and coffee shop in Chicago.