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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“Am I living? Do I / accept revision / as my godhead / and savior?” Wendy Xu reads her poem “Looking at My Father,” which appears in her collection The Past (Wesleyan University Press, 2021), in this video for the Dear Poet series, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month.
Tags: Poetry | Wendy Xu | The Past | Academy of American Poets | Dear Poet | reading | National Poetry Month | 2026 -
"As a writer, I love the irresponsibility of the short story.... There's something beautifully free and single gesture about writing a short story." Tessa Hadley, author of the new novel, The Past (Harper, 2016), and whose work appears in The Penguin Book of the British Short Story (Penguin, 2015), talks about her experience writing both short stories and novels.
Tags: 2015 | Harper | Penguin | short story | 2016 | Tessa Hadley | The Past | The Penguin Book of the British Short Story | Fiction
