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A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
"I've always loved, just the play of language." Kimiko Hahn speaks about growing up immersed in multiple languages and how that has influenced her writing. Hahn is one of the nine authors featured in "The Judges" in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Mark Doty introduces and reads "A Display of Mackerel," from his poetry collection Atlantis (HarperCollins, 1995), on PBS NewsHour in 2011. Read Maya C. Popa's interview with Doty in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine—and listen to a conversation with the poet in the first episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.
In a video shared by Button Poetry, Nate Marshall reads his poem "Prelude (R.I.P.)" at the Fox Egg Gallery in Minneapolis. Marshall is featured in "Winners on Winning (and Losing)" in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
The author of Red Thread (Fithian Press, 2012) and Keeper of the Winds (FootHills Publishing, 2014), reads from her work at Rattle's monthly reading series. Rattle is featured in Literary MagNet in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Sean H. Doyle's debut memoir, This Must Be the Place, is forthcoming in May from Civil Coping Mechanisms. The Virginia-based press is featured in Small Press Points in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Elegy for a Dead World is a creative-writing video game that explores abandoned worlds inspired by English Romantic poets Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats. Read more about the game's creation in "Writing an Elegy for a Dead World" by Dana Isokawa in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. The editors discuss the game in the first episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.
Iowa City's Prairie Lights bookstore hosts a reading with poets Jessica Jacobs, author of Pelvis With Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), and Nickole Brown, author of Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015). Brown's poetry collection is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Clive James speaks with BBC News about living with a terminal illness and reads from his new poetry collection, Sentenced to Life (Picador, 2015). An essay collection by James, Latest Readings, will be published by Yale University Press in June.
Inspired by Austin Kleon's book Newspaper Blackout (Harper Perennial, 2010), John Carroll creates colorful works of blackout poetry with pens, acrylic paint, and spray paint. Read today's poetry prompt in The Time Is Now for ideas on how to create your own.
"I don't think I could've happily stayed here in the world if I did not have a way of thinking about it, which is what writing is for me." Toni Morrison speaks about what motivates her to keep writing. Morrison's new novel, God Help the Child (Knopf, 2015), is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
