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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In this recent installment of UC Berkeley’s Lunch Poems series, Brandon Shimoda reads a selection of poems and essays with the theme of “oranges,” which address the memory of Japanese American incarceration and war.
Tags: Poetry | Creative Nonfiction | Cross-Genre | Brandon Shimoda | Lunch Poems | UC Berkeley | reading | 2024 -
In this 2023 virtual event hosted by City Lights Bookstore, Emily Luan, author of 回 / Return (Nightboat Books, 2023), and Brandon Shimoda, author of Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023), read from their poetry collections and discuss themes of memory, mourning, and migration in their writing.
Tags: Poetry | Emily Luan | 回 / Return | Brandon Shimoda | Hydra Medusa | Nightboat Books | Peter Maravelis | City Lights Live | reading | 2023