Poets & Writers Theater

“This is how you tell a story,” says narrator Tilda Swinton in a short film written and directed by Andrew Ondrejcak, which goes through six steps of a writer’s process paired with a dance choreographed by Kyle Abraham. “There is a problem. It is an obstacle so monumental that it seems unlikely our tiny protagonist will be able to overcome something so impressive. It’s a mountain pressing down, it’s a witch, a curse, a giant.”

Paul Muldoon speaks with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about “Muldoon’s Picnic,” a monthly show held at the Irish Arts Center in New York featuring music, storytelling, and poetry.

“They’re not the same as any other books I’ve read.” Visitors of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, located in Dahl’s home village Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England, share their love of the author’s classic books and characters.

“Real stories never end.” At a celebration for the New Yorker’s ninetieth anniversary, David Remnick recounts an experience of journalist failure and speaks on the importance of reporters and citizens.

In this video, Benjamin Percy, author of Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction (Graywolf Press, 2016), is challenged to tell a five-minute true story from a randomly selected prompt for the Back Fence PDX storytelling series. Percy joins the two-day Poets & Writers Live conference in San Francisco on January 14 and 15, 2017.