Poets & Writers Theater

"Twenty-two stories about the magic of useless things" promises the book trailer for Dolan Morgan's new collection of short stories, Insignificana (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). Civil Coping Mechanisms was featured in Small Press Points in the May/June 2015 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

"I've always loved, just the play of language." Kimiko Hahn speaks about growing up immersed in multiple languages and how that has influenced her writing. Hahn is one of the nine authors featured in "The Judges" in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In a video shared by Button Poetry, Nate Marshall reads his poem "Prelude (R.I.P.)" at the Fox Egg Gallery in Minneapolis. Marshall is featured in "Winners on Winning (and Losing)" in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

The author of Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012) and Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing, 2014), reads from her work at Rattle's monthly reading series. Rattle is featured in Literary MagNet in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Sean H. Doyle's debut memoir, This Must Be the Place, is forthcoming in May from Civil Coping Mechanisms. The Virginia-based press is featured in Small Press Points in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Elegy for a Dead World is a creative-writing video game that explores abandoned worlds inspired by English Romantic poets Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats. Read more about the game's creation in "Writing an Elegy for a Dead World" by Dana Isokawa in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. The editors discuss the game in the first episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.

Iowa City's Prairie Lights bookstore hosts a reading with poets Jessica Jacobs, author of Pelvis With Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), and Nickole Brown, author of Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015). Brown's poetry collection is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“I don’t think I could’ve happily stayed here in the world if I did not have a way of thinking about it, which is what writing is for me.” In this New York Times video, Toni Morrison speaks about what motivates her to keep writing. Morrison’s new novel, God Help the Child (Knopf, 2015), is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.