This Is What Tomorrow Looks Like
On a train from Sydney to Melbourne, four family members each wrote a short poem with the same title to create this simple yet touching video.
Mon, 09/10/2012 - 20:00
A curated selection of videos, including book trailers, brief interviews, and other literary curiosities updated daily.
Pioneers! O Space Pioneers!
Created by YouTube user JankAround, this mashup of Walt Whitman’s poem “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” and footage as well as NASA animation of space exploration pays homage to the late Neil Armstrong.
Sarah Kay
She was fourteen years old when she took the stage at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City's East Village. Sarah Kay, now twenty-four, is a cofounder of Project V.O.I.C.E., a national organization that celebrates and inspires youth self-expression, and a leading spoken word poet.
Big Oil
Bob Hicok's "Having intended to merely pick on an oil company, the poem goes awry" gets dramatic in documentarian Joanna Kohler's adaptation, produced by Motionpoems.
Poetry and Perfume
In this short video produced by Columbia School of Journalism's Mariana Ionova, poet Alex Ustach talks about her work in a perfumery in New York City and how perfume and poetry intertwine.
Book Feelings
How does a new book make you feel? That's the question posed in this clip from Hachette Australia, which features stacks of new books, including Justin Cronin's The Twelve ("Survive"), Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds ("Heal"), and Will Schwalbe's The End of Your Life Book Club ("Cry").
Wed, 08/29/2012 - 20:00
Natasha Trethewey
This clip of Natasha Trethewey reading on April 12 at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago as part of the Dark Room Collective Reunion Tour, was recorded by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Read Kevin Nance's profile of the new poet laureate, "This Time, This Voice," in the current issue.
Tue, 08/28/2012 - 20:00
Thomas Pynchon
The Penguin Press has released eight novels by Thomas Pynchon, including Gravity's Raindbow, Vineland, and Against the Day, as e-books. If that news doesn't excite you, perhaps this rockin' trailer will.
Mon, 08/27/2012 - 20:00
Patricia Highsmith
Authors Alison Bechdel, Terry Castle, and Joan Schenkar and editor Robert Weil talk about the influence of Patricia Highsmith, twenty-one of whose works are available in print and e-book from W. W. Norton.
Sun, 08/26/2012 - 20:00
Jonathan Evison
To promote his third novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, published this month by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Jonathan Evison is hitting the road for a tour that begins August 25 at Sunriver Books & Music in Sunriver, Oregon, and wraps up on October 28 at the Texas Book Festival in Austin.