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 City Club of Cleveland event, Namwali Serpell reads from her book On Morrison (Hogarth, 2026) and discusses Toni Morrison’s use of literary forms as well as her frustration with critics during her career in a conversation with poet Kortney Morrow.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Namwali Serpell | On Morrison | Hogarth | Kortney Morrow | Toni Morrison | City Club of Cleveland | discussion | 2026 -
On BRIC TV’s 112BK, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, co-owner of Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, presents her summer reading recommendations including Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019), Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift Hogarth, 2019), Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black (Knopf, 2018), and Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer (St. Martin’s Press, 2019).
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Greenlight Bookstore | BRIC TV | summer reading | Ocean Vuong | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Penguin Press | 2019 | Namwali Serpell | The Old Drift | Hogarth | Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | Knopf | Hugh Ryan | When Brooklyn Was Queer | St. Martin's Press
