Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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Bill Murray convinces Jimmy Kimmel that poetry is great and reads one of his favorite poems, "What the Mirror Said" by Lucille Clifton. Murray also speaks about his experiences with the late Jim Harrison, noting that "he was a force."
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Bill Murray reads work by poets such as Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, and Lorine Niedecker to an audience of construction workers who built the Poets House space in Battery Park City in New York City.
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In celebration of Emily Dickinson's 184th birthday today, we share this collage of clips from films featuring her famous poems. The video accompanied a talk at the Emily Dickinson Museum with Jerome Charyn, author of the novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson (W.W. Norton, 2010) in 2011.
Tags: 2010 | 2011 | film | Emily Dickinson | Bill Murray | Emily Dickinson Museum | Jerome Charyn | The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson | W. W. Norton | Cross-Genre -
Actor Bill Murray read two poems by Wallace Stevens at Bubby's Brooklyn as part of Poets House's seventeenth annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge last month.
