Poets & Writers Theater

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.

In this event hosted by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, poet and biologist Brandon Kilbourne talks about the relationship between scientific inquiry and poetics which manifests in his debut poetry collection, Natural History (Graywolf Press, 2025), and reads a selection of poems. Kilbourne’s collection is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of The Write Reasons podcast, Susan Orlean talks about how her first memoir, Joyride (Avid Reader Press, 2025), originated from her reflections of her 1992 Esquire essay, “The American Male at Age Ten,” in a conversation with Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp. Orlean’s memoir is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this 2023 Harvard Radcliffe Institute event, Gabrielle Calvocoressi reads from their collection The New Economy (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and discusses the relationship between the vessel of the body and the vessel of the poem in a conversation with Claudia Rizzini. The New Economy is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Magers & Quinn Booksellers event, Carson Faust reads from his debut novel, If the Dead Belong Here (Viking, 2025), and discusses the origins and power of the book’s unconventional structure and the surge in popularity of Indigenous horror literature in a conversation with Mona Susan Power. Faust’s novel is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“Communication is so important.” In this 2013 TEDx Talk, Rachel Kolb speaks about the value of communication and language, and the misconceptions about deafness. Kolb’s debut memoir, Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice (Ecco Press, 2025), is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this video, Ricardo Hernandez, assistant director of Programs & Partnerships at Poets & Writers, hosts a celebratory reading by the 2025 poetry cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career authors. Readers include Adedayo Agarau, Genevieve DeGuzman, Isabella DeSendi, Alison Lubar, Nick Martino, Yamini Pathak, mick powell, Maya Salameh, Kelsey L. Smoot, and Bernardo Wade. DeSendi’s debut collection, Someone Else’s Hunger (Four Way Books, 2025), is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of The Interview, a podcast from the New York Times, Arundhati Roy speaks with host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about government censorship and political repression, the role of the artist amidst crisis, and the challenges of writing about her mother in her new memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me (Scribner, 2025), which is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Politics and Prose event, Kevin Young reads from his latest poetry collection, Night Watch (Knopf, 2025), and discusses the importance of place, both for his life and his writing, in a conversation with Steve Lickteig. Night Watch is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Chloé Caldwell reads from her second memoir, Trying (Graywolf Press, 2025), in this Green Apple Books event with Ariel Gore and Mia Arias Tsang in which they speak about the meaning of failure, the nuances of writing about relationships, and the process of representing queerness on the page. Caldwell’s book is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Politics and Prose event with novelist Angie Kim, Ed Park discusses the twenty-five-year process of writing his first story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House, 2025), which is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. For more from Park, read his installation of our Ten Questions series.

Marissa Davis reads from her debut poetry collection, End of Empire (Penguin Books, 2025), in this Books Are Magic event with poets Sasha Burshteyn and A. D. Lauren-Abunassar. Davis’s book is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination event, Guadalupe Nettel, Ayşegül Savaş, and Maylis de Kerangal talk about their recent story collections and how short story collections are received in the current publishing industry. Savaş’s first story collection, Long Distance, is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.