Poets & Writers Theater

“O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, / By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!” In this short film for the Sonnet Project, Gabrielle Beans performs Shakespeare’s Sonnet 54 at Sakura Park in Morningside Heights in New York City.

In this short film for the Sonnet Project, Michelle Beck performs Shakespeare's Sonnet 8 at Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell in New York City. The Sonnet Project, which aims to film all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, is featured in News and Trends in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“We rise and fall and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer.” While accepting the Tony for best score for Hamilton on Sunday night, playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda opted to read a sonnet for his wife, addressing the tragic shooting in Orlando and showing the power of poetry and words in times of tragedy.

Nicole Sealey reads William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 6 and her poem “Even the Gods” from her debut collection, Ordinary Beast (Ecco, 2017), for the P.O.P series, which was was shot and edited by Rachel Eliza Griffiths in partnership with the Academy of American Poets. Sealey discusses poetry and craft with Dawn Lundy Martin in “Vagrant & Vulnerable” in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this short film starring Brian Cheng, Shakespeare's Sonnet 82 is played out at the Strand Book Store in New York City as part of the Sonnet Project.