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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Carmen Giménez Smith
In this 2016 video, Carmen Giménez Smith reads from a selection of her poems for the Lunch Poems reading series at the University of California in Berkeley. Smith speaks about her fifth book, Cruel Futures (City Lights Books, 2018), in “The Love of Labor, the Labor of Love” by Rigoberto González in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Carmen Giménez Smith | Cruel Futures | City Lights Books | 2018 | Lunch Poems | May/June 2018 -
Lunch Poems With Mary Ruefle
In this 2002 video, poet and essayist Mary Ruefle reads a selection of poems and prose pieces for the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley. Ruefle is the author of On Imagination (Sarabande Books, 2017), a chapbook-length essay exploring the act of writing.
Tags: Poetry | Mary Ruefle | Lunch Poems | UC Berkeley | On Imagination | Sarabande Books | reading | 2017 -
Poem en Forme de Saw
"I’m so damned literary / and at the same time the waters rushing past remind me of / nothing..." Hilary Kaplan reads Frank O'Hara's "Poem en Forme de Saw" from Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Publishers. Angélica Freitas's debut collection, Rilke Shake (Phoneme Media, 2015), translated from the Portuguese by Kaplan, won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award in poetry.
Tags: 2015 | reading | translation | Frank O'Hara | 2016 | Hilary Kaplan | Angélica Freitas | Rilke Shake | Phoneme Media | Lunch Poems | City Lights Publishers | Poem en Forme de Saw | 1964 | Best Translated Book Awards | Poetry
