Poets & Writers Theater

In this Haymarket Books event, Edna Bonhomme reflects on the impacts of colonialism and racial capitalism, and how her journeys to cities across the world informed the writing of her memoir, Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir (Haymarket Books, 2026), in a conversation with Edwidge Danticat. Bonhomme’s book is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Poets & Writers Live virtual event introduced by Poets & Writers editor in chief Kevin Larimer, Phillip B. Williams reads from his new poetry collection, Lift Every Voice (Penguin Books, 2026), and joins Poets & Writers Magazine contributing editor Destiny O. Birdsong for a conversation. A profile of Phillips by Birdsong appears in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this video, Krys Malcolm Belc talks about his memoir What I Made for Dinner (Catapult, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, for an event at Books Are Magic with Joseph Osmundson. “I used to dream of a better world and now I’m dreaming of projects, loaves of bread, layer cakes, laminated pastries.”

In this video, chaun webster reads his essay “This Occupation Is Strange but Familiar” for the Minnesota Writers Respond event presented in partnership with the Loft Literary Center and Milkweed Books. webster’s book Without Terminus (Graywolf Press, 2026) is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Green Apple Books event, Nick Martino reads from his debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (Alice James Books, 2026), and discusses how he used different types of archival documents to explore how his father’s incarceration shaped his life in a conversation with Brian Tierney. Scrap Book is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of the SlantCast podcast, Gregory Wolfe, founder of Slant Books, and Emily Kwilinski, the press’s managing editor, speak with author and industry insider Jim Hanas about the role of indie presses in the book business. Slant Books is featured in Small Press Points in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this video, Michael Holtmann, president of the Center for the Art of Translation, and founder Olivia Sears, along with authors and booksellers, talk about the importance of literary translation and the need to build a permanent home for the center in San Francisco. For more information, read “A New Home for Translators in San Francisco” by Ilana Masad in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this interview with the Hindu, Amitav Ghosh talks about his writing over four decades and the making of his latest novel, Ghost-Eye (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Square Books video, Josh Weil reads from his second novel, What Came West (Doubleday, 2026), and talks about his research of the Sierra Nevada before and during the Gold Rush in a conversation with Michael X. Wang. The novel is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.