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 Green Apple Books event, literary agent Alia Hanna Habib reads from her guidebook, Take It From Me: An Agent’s Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career From Scratch (Pantheon Books, 2026), and offers advice to aspiring writers in a conversation with Maia Ipp. Habib’s book is the “Suggested Reading” pick in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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This short film produced by Boa Editions and Hunger Media highlights the life and career of Lucille Clifton and how her work continues to influence and inspire the poetry community, including Boa’s Blessing the Boats Selections series. For more on the press’s work, read “Poetry to Save Us: Boa at 50” in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Lucille Clifton | BOA Editions | short film | blessing the boats | independent presses | March/April 2026 | in memoriam -
In this 2022 event from UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series, Jake Skeets reads a selection of poems, some of which appear in his debut collection, Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers (Milkweed Editions, 2019). A Q&A with Skeets about his second collection, Horses (Milkweed Editions, 2026), appears in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
