Poets & Writers Theater

At OneLife Institute’s World Peace Day event, Alice Walker reads “Loving Oakland” from her tenth poetry collection, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart (37 INK, 2018), which is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In honor of Black History Month, the folks at Open Road Media put together this collection of interviews in which authors such as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Virginia Hamilton, Alice Walker, and others discuss the significance of storytelling as part of African American culture.

Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, N. K. Jemisin, Virginia Hamilton, and David Halberstam discuss the legacy and contributions of African American writers to the Western canon in this video from Open Road Media.

Authors Michael Chabon, Alice Walker, Robert Munsch, Noah Gordon, Robert McCammon, and even William Shatner sing the praises of e-readers in this short video from Open Road Media. Chabon even goes so far as to say, "Having an e-reader broadens the possibilities for the life of a reader."

In this new video from Open Road Media, bestselling authors Alice Walker, Erica Jong, and Alix Kates Shulman talk about their work advocating for women, writing about women, and exploring stories about the female experience.

"So in the end you can't even really regret your misfortunes—because they led you somewhere," says Alice Walker in this retrospective video from Open Road Media, which recently released Walker's work, including The Color Purple, in digital form.