Poets & Writers Theater

In this 2013 Woodberry Poetry Room video, Mary Ruefle reads twenty-eight short meditations from her essay collection Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012) with subjects including Shakespeare, Socrates, Van Morrison, the dead, hypocrisy, and loneliness. Ruefle received the 2020 Arthur Rense Poetry Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Mary Ruefle reads a selection of her poetry and prose at the 2019 Newcastle Poetry Festival at the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts. Ruefle’s fourteenth poetry collection, Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this 2002 video, poet and essayist Mary Ruefle reads a selection of poems and prose pieces for the Lunch Poems reading series at UC Berkeley. Ruefle is the author of On Imagination (Sarabande Books, 2017), a chapbook-length essay exploring the act of writing.