Poets & Writers Theater

In this CBS Mornings video, Oprah Winfrey announces her new book club pick The Covenant of Water (Grove Press, 2023) by Abraham Verghese, who speaks about his writing process, how his work as a physician feeds into his writing, and how his family’s history inspired his new novel. For more, read “The Great Lie That Tells the Truth: A Q&A With Abraham Verghese” by Naheed Phiroze Patel.

“I wanted to continue to participate in that tradition of hope-making in every single poem that I wrote,” says Amanda Gorman about frequently listening to Maya Angelou’s inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning” in this conversation with Oprah Winfrey for Apple TV Plus.

“If we could just stop, and listen,” begins Joy Harjo in a conversation about how stillness, gratitude, and kindness can help heal America in this Super Soul Sunday video with Oprah Winfrey.

The author of the best-selling novel The Alchemist sits down with Oprah Winfrey for a rare television interview. Coelho discusses the idea of the “personal legend” and how this guided his path to become a writer.