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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Lise Goett reads from her third poetry collection, The Radiant (Tupelo Press, 2024), in this Jules’ Poetry Playhouse virtual reading with Mark Wunderlich hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche. The Radiant is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Lise Goett | The Radiant | Tupelo Press | reading | Mark Wunderlich | Poetry Playhouse | Jules Nyquist | John Roche | Page One | January/February 2025 -
“You fill the pool with cough syrup, / and the hot tub with a thousand / hollowed-out cicada shells.” Noah Falck reads “Poem Excluding Modern Technology” from his new poetry collection, Exclusions (Tupelo Press, 2020), in this video poem directed by Kyle Marler with sound by Benjamin Jura.
Tags: Poetry | Noah Falck | Exclusions | Tupelo Press | 2020 | video poem -
“Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine / in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways...” This Motionpoems short film by Anais LaRocca features Maggie Smith’s title poem from her third collection, Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017).
Tags: Poetry | Motionpoems | Maggie Smith | Good Bones | Tupelo Press | 2017 | video poem -
“It was easy to worship obedient things.” Mario Chard reads a selection of poems from his debut poetry collection, Land of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2018) at Litquake in 2012. Karp is featured in “Wilder Forms: Our Fourteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Mario Chard | Land of Fire | Tupelo Press | 2018 | Debut Poets 2018 | January/February 2019 | Litquake -
“If there are fewer stars now / than when I was a child, / I can’t say / which are missing, / who was the last to see them.” Maggie Smith’s poem “Small Shoes” is adapted into a short film by director Kate Dolan for Motionpoems. Smith is the author of the poetry collection Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), the title poem of which went viral on social media after it was first published online in the literary journal Waxwing.
Tags: Poetry | Maggie Smith | Small Shoes | Good Bones | Tupelo Press | 2017 | Kate Dolan | Motionpoems | Rise Up Review | short film | 2018 -
“A cook marries ingredients much the way a poet marries words. This is a human experience.” In Cooking With the Muse: A Sumptuous Gathering of Seasonal Recipes, Culinary Poetry, and Literary Fare (Tupelo Press, 2016), poet Stephen Massimilla and chef Myra Kornfeld collaborate on an anthology of culinary poems and recipes. The book explores the connection between cooking and writing, and includes works by luminaries such as Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Zora Neale Hurston, Seamus Heaney, and Jane Hirshfield.
Tags: book trailer | Tupelo Press | 2016 | Stephen Massimilla | Myra Kornfeld | Cooking With the Muse | Poetry -
Frank and Henry Nahurski interpret Larissa Szporluk’s poem “Sunflower” from Traffic With MacBeth (Tupelo Press, 2011) in this most recent offering from Motionpoems.
Tags: Motionpoems | 2011 | Traffic With MacBeth | Tupelo Press | Larissa Szporluk | Poetry