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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“I don’t call it sleep anymore. / I’ll risk losing something new instead,” reads Natalie Diaz from her poem “From the Desire Field” in this Graywolf Press virtual event celebrating her collection Postcolonial Love Poem, for which she won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Tags: Poetry | Natalie Diaz | Solmaz Sharif | Jeff Shotts | Fiona McCrae | Postcolonial Love Poem | Pulitzer Prize | Graywolf Press | 2021 -
“The vitality of poetry right now, I think, is at a high pitch.” Jeff Shotts, executive editor of Graywolf Press, speaks with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffery Brown about the independent press’s success, poetry submissions and rejections, and why there’s never been a better time than now for poetry publishing.
Tags: Poetry | PBS NewsHour | Jeffrey Brown | Graywolf Press | Jeff Shotts | rejection | independent presses | publishing | submission process -
Kevin Larimer, editor in chief of Poets & Writers Magazine, leads a conversation with editors Jeff Shotts of Graywolf Press and Chuck Adams of Algonquin Books, and authors Jeffrey Yang and Amy Rowland about what it means to be published by an independent press, the author-editor relationship, and how they work together to reach readers.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | 2014 | panel | Graywolf Press | Algonquin Books | #pwlive | Washington, D.C.: Independent Presses | Washington, D.C. | Jeff Shotts | Chuck Adams | Jeffrey Yang | Amy Rowland
