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 video from the Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica series, Megan Fernandes reads “The Edward Albee Barn” from her second poetry collection, Good Boys (Tin House Books, 2020). For more Fernandes, read her installment of Writers Recommend.
Tags: Poetry | Megan Fernandes | The Edward Albee Barn | Good Boys | Tin House Books | 2020 | Poetry Foundation | Ours Poetica -
“A blue against the easy clarities of sky, / a blue that eats the light, a bruise // ascended from forgetfulness.” In this Ours Poetica video, Eduardo C. Corral reads “Kinds of Blue #76 (Evening Snow)” by Don McKay from his collection Camber (McClelland and Stewart, 2004).
Tags: Poetry | Don McKay | Camber | McClelland and Stewart | 2004 | Eduardo C. Corral | Ours Poetica -
“It was Dre who once said, / You lose something every day / Your mind on the way to the store / The floor on the way to your mind…” In this Ours Poetica video, Jacqueline Woodson reads “You Lose Something Every Day,” a poem from Willie Perdomo’s collection The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Books, 2019).
Tags: Poetry | Jacqueline Woodson | Willie Perdomo | The Crazy Bunch | Penguin Books | 2019 | Ours Poetica | Poetry Foundation -
“Once on the back porch my lab barked / and barked. / he was always spooked / by something, garter snake, black / snake, rabbit.” In this Ours Poetica video produced in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation, Phillip B. Williams reads an untitled poem by Kayleb Rae Candrilli from their debut book, What Runs Over (YesYes Books, 2017).
Tags: Poetry | Phillip B. Williams | Ours Poetica | Poetry Foundation | Kayleb Rae Candrilli | What Runs Over | YesYes Books | 2017 -
“I was so struck by ‘Snow Drops’—it became sort of my prayer toward healing.” Leila Chatti talks about her connection with Louise Glück’s Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, The Wild Iris, and reads the poem “Snow Drops” for the Poetry Foundation’s Ours Poetica video series.
Tags: Poetry | Leila Chatti | reading | Snow Drops | Louise Glück | Ours Poetica | Poetry Foundation -
“The street shines with / mannequins in rhinestone. We walk / as if just friends.” In this Ours Poetica video, Oliver Baez Bendorf reads Rane Arroyo’s poem “Details as Revelations.” For more Bendorf, read his installment of Ten Questions.
Tags: Poetry | Oliver Baez Bendorf | Ours Poetica | Rane Arroyo | short film | reading -
“A detail in a pool of blood / the body gathered in an awkward kink / I dress myself in easy anything…” In this Ours Poetica video, Chase Berggrun reads “Chapter XXI” from R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018), a book of erasures of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Tags: Poetry | Chase Berggrun | R E D | Birds, LLC | 2018 | Ours Poetica | Bram Stoker | Dracula -
“Child, we move through graves / like eels, delicious with our heads first, our mouths / agape.” In this Ours Poetica video, Jane Wong reads her poem “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” published in the November 2018 issue of Poetry magazine. Wong’s second poetry collection, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2021.
Tags: Poetry | Jane Wong | Poetry magazine | Ours Poetica | How to Not Be Afraid of Everything | Alice James Books | 2019 | 2021 -
Julian Randall reads “On the Night I Consider Coming Out to My Parents” from his debut poetry collection, Refuse (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), in this Ours Poetica video produced by the Poetry Foundation in collaboration with Complexly. Randall is featured in “My MFA Experience” in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Julian Randall | Refuse | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2018 | reading | Ours Poetica | Poetry Foundation | September/October 2019