Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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In this Books Are Magic event, Lana Lin reads from her book The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam (Dorothy, a Publishing Project, 2025) and discusses how she uses both Gertrude Stein and Audre Lorde’s genre-bending approaches to autobiography in order to highlight Asian diasporic narratives in a conversation with Monique Truong.
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“My whole task in writing a book is to get closer; to hear what I’m hearing more clearly and to see what I’m seeing more clearly.” In this conversation for the Reading the Room podcast, Amina Cain speaks about her book A Horse at Night: On Writing (Dorothy, a Publishing Project, 2022) and her creative process with host Jaylen Lopez.
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi reads from her novel Fra Keeler (Dorothy, 2012) at an event for the BONK! performance series in Racine, Wisconsin. The author is one of the honorees for the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 for 2015.
Tags: reading | 2012 | 5 Under 35 | Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | Fra Keeler | Dorothy, a Publishing Project | Fiction
