Poets & Writers Theater

For this LIVE From NYPL event, Jamaica Kincaid and illustrator Kara Walker discuss their collaborative book, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), and the racial, colonial history of gardening in a conversation with Hilton Als.

“My mother thought that if she taught me to read, I would become interested to read my books and leave her alone,” says Jamaica Kincaid about her experience reading as a child and how it influenced her as a writer in this interview from the 2021 Louisiana Literature Festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.

In this video, Kaiama L. Glover, associate professor at Barnard College, discusses Caribbean Feminisms on the Page, an event series featuring conversations with writers from the Caribbean. Glover’s translation from the French of René Depestre’s novel Hadriana in All My Dreams (Akashic Books, 2017) is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“...this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard...” In this video from 2014, Jamaica Kincaid reads her short story "Girl," and speaks about her life and writing career as part of Journeys, the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the Chicago Humanities Festival.