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 2018 interview with former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, Dolly Parton speaks about how her father’s illiteracy inspired her to launch the Imagination Library, a book gifting program that has provided over 330 million books to children across the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada, and Ireland. Parton died at the age of eighty on August 25, 2026.
Tags: Not Genre-Specific | Dolly Parton | Imagination Library | Carla Hayden | reading | 2018 | in memoriam -
In this 92NY virtual reading, Lynn Melnick speaks about how Dolly Parton’s songs helped shape the structure of her memoir, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (University of Texas Press, 2022), in a conversation with poet Deborah Paredez.
