Poets & Writers Theater

In this 2009 reading filmed at the Dodge Poetry Festival, Jane Hirshfield reads her poem “For What Binds Us,” which is included in her latest collection, The Asking: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in September from Knopf. A profile of Hirshfield by Danusha Laméris is featured in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this short film, part of the Poetry Everywhere series produced in association with the Poetry Foundation, a poem by James Tate is animated by Steven Wells.

"Poetry is a necessity of life. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free and declare them so." The Poetry Everywhere project, in association with the Poetry Foundation, features C. D. Wright reading her poem "Lake Echo, Dear."

“What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.” Stanley Kunitz, who died in 2006, is seen here at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in 2000 reading “Touch Me.”

“I’ve hurt you. I’ve loved you. I’ve mowed the front yard.” Poet Matthew Dickman, author most recently of Mayakovsky's Revolver: Poems, reads “Slow Dance.”