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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Carl Phillips gives a craft talk on poems by Thom Gunn, francine j. harris, and Louise Glück at the 2017 Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Phillips’s most recent poetry collection, Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), is featured in Page One in the January/February 2018 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Carl Phillips | talk | Wild Is the Wind | 2018 | Page One | January/February 2018 | craft talk | Thom Gunn | francine j. harris | Louise Glück | 2017 | Palm Beach Poetry Festival | Farrar, Straus and Giroux -
In this video, Maggie Millner, Yale Review senior editor and author of Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), talks about her favorite love poems, including Thom Gunn’s “The Hug” and June Jordan’s “Resolution #1,003.”
Tags: Poetry | Maggie Millner | Yale Review | love poems | Thom Gunn | June Jordan | Couplets: A Love Story | 2025 | Valentine's Day