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“You do not believe you are sexy. You do not believe you are beautiful. You believe you are intelligent, but sometimes the effort to convince others isn’t worth it.” Jennifer Bartlett, whose essay "A Call to Action: Working Toward Inclusiveness for Poets With Disabilities" is in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads from “The Hindrances of a Householder” at the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Festival in Washington, D.C.
“Maybe he could tell I had a look in my eye / That wasn’t crazy anymore / Maybe he could feel the wild cool blood in me / And it frightened him / And he lashed out in fear...” Dorothea Lasky reads "I Had a Man" from her poetry collection Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012) for the Milk & Roses Reading Series in Brooklyn.
“I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light...” This animated video by Milos features Billy Collins narrating his poem “Introduction to Poetry” fromThe Apple That Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1996). Collins’s new poetry collection, The Rain in Portugal (Random House, 2016), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“Forgive me. My heart is an endless elegy. My heart is the ash every house of God leaves behind.” Joshua Bennett, author of the poetry collection, The Sobbing School (Penguin Books, 2016), reads a poem for “Black Joy,” an event presented by AfroPunk and the Strivers Row in New York.
Last week, in a surprising decision, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan is the first musician to win the award and in its citation the Swedish Academy, which administers the prize, credited Dylan with “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Whether you agree with the decision or not, examine some of Dylan’s lyrics. Then, write a poem that begins with a line you find compelling.
“These men, though: they had a smell I can’t name, / and, if they wanted, could reach down to touch me / but didn’t, and disappeared when my hand / reached their door frame.” Brad Richard reads "The Men in the Dark" from his third poetry collection, Butcher's Sugar (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012).
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.
“The will to keep moving, an instrument’s heat, bald mountains and a spider that was a leaf.” In this video from 2013, Fanny Howe reads for the Reva Logan Poetry Series. Her collection of essays The Needle's Eye (Graywolf Press, 2016) is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
For the launch of the poetry and essay anthology Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (Norton, 2016) edited by Phil Cushway and Michael Warr, devorah major reads Angela Jackson's contributions, as well as from her own work. major's new poetry collection, and then we became (City Lights Publishers, 2016), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, a documentary directed by Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack, celebrates Maya Angelou with rare interviews, home movies and videos, and archival photographs that offer an intimate glimpse into her life.
