Poets & Writers Theater

In this episode of Literary Hub’s Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast cohosted by Christian Barter, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, and Whitney Terrell, author Claudia Rankine discusses how current political crises inspired her new book, Triage (Graywolf Press, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Politics and Prose event, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn reads from their second essay collection, I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships (Flatiron Books, 2026), and discusses how researching and writing about flowers helped structure their personal experiences in a conversation with Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes. Sawchyn’s book is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Fine Arts Work Center event in Provincetown, Massachusetts, poet Hieu Minh Nguyen, writer Lydi Conklin, and photographer Ron Amato present their respective works. Nguyen reads a selection of poems from his third collection, Staying Still (Tin House, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“to speak is not yet to have spoken.” In this video, Carolyn Forché reads her poem “What Comes” for the Dear Poet series, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month. Forché’s collection Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 (Scribner, 2026) is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“It’s the most personal novel I’ve ever written.” In this Penguin Random House Spring Book & Author Festival virtual event, Marlon James talks about his desire to present the world he grew up in through an exploration of queer life in Jamaica in the eighties and nineties in his new novel, The Disappearers (Riverhead Books, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Haymarket Books event, Edna Bonhomme reflects on the impacts of colonialism and racial capitalism, and how her journeys to cities across the world informed the writing of her memoir, Tending to Our Wounds: A Diasporic Memoir (Haymarket Books, 2026), in a conversation with Edwidge Danticat. Bonhomme’s book is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this video, Krys Malcolm Belc talks about his memoir What I Made for Dinner (Catapult, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, for an event at Books Are Magic with Joseph Osmundson. “I used to dream of a better world and now I’m dreaming of projects, loaves of bread, layer cakes, laminated pastries.”

In this video, chaun webster reads his essay “This Occupation Is Strange but Familiar” for the Minnesota Writers Respond event presented in partnership with the Loft Literary Center and Milkweed Books. webster’s book Without Terminus (Graywolf Press, 2026) is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Green Apple Books event, Nick Martino reads from his debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (Alice James Books, 2026), and discusses how he used different types of archival documents to explore how his father’s incarceration shaped his life in a conversation with Brian Tierney. Scrap Book is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this interview with the Hindu, Amitav Ghosh talks about his writing over four decades and the making of his latest novel, Ghost-Eye (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Square Books video, Josh Weil reads from his second novel, What Came West (Doubleday, 2026), and talks about his research of the Sierra Nevada before and during the Gold Rush in a conversation with Michael X. Wang. The novel is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Square Books event, Aimee Nezhukumatathil reads from her fifth poetry collection, Night Owl (Ecco, 2026), and talks about the themes of darkness and nighttime in her poems. Nezhukumatathil’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this ABC News segment, Joshua Bennett talks about how his parents nurtured his interest in African American history leading him to write his new book, The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time (Little, Brown, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Politics and Prose event, Anne Fadiman reads from her collection Frog: And Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026) and discusses her career pivot from reportage to essays in a conversation with Isaac Arnsdorf. Fadiman’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast with guest host Jenna Seery, Jeanette Winterson talks about retelling some of the stories from One Thousand and One Nights in her first hybrid book, One Aladdin Two Lamps (Grove Press, 2026). Winterson’s book is featured in Page One in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Gays Reading podcast interview with host Jason Blitman, Gabriel Tallent speaks about perseverance and what inspired his second novel, Crux (Riverhead Books, 2026), which is featured in Page One in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Books Are Magic event, Andrés Cerpa reads from his third collection, The Palace (Alice James Books, 2025), and talks about the importance of myth in poetry in a conversation with Iain Haley Pollock. Cerpa’s collection is featured in Page One in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Beyond Baroque celebration of Teresa Dzieglewicz’s debut collection, Something Small of How to See a River (Tupelo Press, 2025), poets Jessica Abughattas, Meghann Plunkett, and Arumandhira Howard read their work exploring strength, care, and radical joy along with Dzieglewicz, whose collection is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Joy Harjo reflects on becoming a poet and artist in the turbulence of the seventies in America and talks about the process of writing her memoir Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age (Norton, 2025). Harjo’s book is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Books Are Magic event, Jaquira Díaz reads from her debut novel, This Is the Only Kingdom (Algonquin Books, 2025), and discusses what inspired her to write a queer coming-of-age story in a conversation with Lupita Aquino and Angie Cruz. Díaz’s novel is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.