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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“More people are turning to [poetry] for truth,” says Patricia Smith in this 2018 interview with Lauren K. Alleyne for The Fight & The Fiddle, the quarterly online publication of the Furious Flower Poetry Center. For more on Smith, read “Unshuttered: Patricia Smith’s Journey Into the Aperture of History” by Tyehimba Jess in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Patricia Smith | Furious Flower Poetry Center | 2018 | interview | March/April 2023 -
“Is it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones,” reads Ada Limón from “The Magnificent Frigatebird,” a poem from her latest collection, The Hurting Kind (Milkweed Editions, 2022), in this reading and conversation with Patricia Smith at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn.
Tags: Poetry | Ada Limón | Patricia Smith | Books Are Magic | The Hurting Kind | Milkweed Editions | 2022 -
“Who knew our pudgy American dream was so combustible?” Patricia Smith reads a poem from her seventh poetry collection, Incendiary Art (TriQuarterly Books, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Patricia Smith | Incendiary Art | TriQuarterly Books | Page One | March/April 2017 | 2017 -
The Academy of American Poets asked Randall Mann, Marilyn Hacker, D. Nurkse, Matt Rasmussen, Patricia Smith, and Brenda Hillman to talk about the most important letters they've received.
Tags: Academy of American Poets | Marilyn Hacker | Randall Mann | D. Nurkse | Matt Rasmussen | Patricia Smith | Brenda Hillman | Poetry
