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, fourteen Black poets from ten different countries read in multiple languages and in translation for this 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Center virtual event hosted by Gbenga Adesina, who is featured in “New Ways of Seeing: Our Twenty-First Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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In this video, Raymond Antrobus discusses and reads his poem “Plantation Paint,” which appears in his collection All the Names Given (Tin House/Picador, 2021), for which he was shortlisted for the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize.
Tags: Poetry | Raymond Antrobus | T. S. Eliot Prize | All the Names Given | Picador | Tin House | 2021 -
“Gaudí believed in holy sound / and built a cathedral to contain it, / pulling hearing men from their knees...” Raymond Antrobus reads his poem “Echo” and discusses his debut poetry collection, The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins, 2018), for which he won the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize.
Tags: Poetry | Raymond Antrobus | Echo | The Perseverance | Penned in the Margins | 2018 | 2019 | Rathbones Folio Prize
