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 Politics and Prose Bookstore event, Lauren Francis-Sharma reads from and speaks about her third novel, Casualties of Truth (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025), in a conversation with Kwame Alexander. The novel is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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In this interview for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Kwame Alexander talks about winning an Emmy Award for the television adaptation of his novel The Crossover, and reads one of his poems which appears in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (Little, Brown, 2024). For more on the anthology, read “The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
