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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“What does it mean to write something urgent right now?” Don’t Be Nice is a 2018 documentary directed by Max Powers that follows a group of poets from the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City’s East Village who grapple with the political climate punctuated by the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements as they prepare for the National Poetry Slam championship during the summer of 2016.
Tags: Poetry | Spoken Word | Don't Be Nice | documentary | movie trailer | slam poetry | Bowery Poetry Club | 2018 -
“There are two types of survival, there’s a kind that eats people alive and the kind I’m lucky enough to do by default.” Mason Granger, executive director of Bowery Poetry, reads his poem “Two Types of People” at the 2019 Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon.
Tags: Spoken Word | Mason Granger | Bowery Poetry Club | Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam | SlamFind | 2019 -
“So why not / make a soup / of what’s left? Why / not boil & chop / something outside / the mind...” Kevin Young reads “Ode to Gumbo” from his poetry collection Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008) at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
Tags: Poetry | Ode to Gumbo | Kevin Young | Dear Darkness | Knopf | Bowery Poetry Club | 2008 -
She was fourteen years old when she took the stage at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City's East Village. Sarah Kay, now twenty-four, is a cofounder of Project V.O.I.C.E., a national organization that celebrates and inspires youth self-expression, and a leading spoken word poet.
Tags: Sarah Kay | New York City | Project VOICE | Bowery Poetry Club | Poetry | Spoken Word