Poets & Writers Theater

“Much like his life, Neruda’s poems bridged romance and revolution by emphasizing the everyday moments worth fighting for.” Author Ilan Stavans narrates this TED-Ed animated film about the life and poetry of Pablo Neruda, directed by Ivana Bosnjak and Thomas Johnson.

In Neruda, a film directed by Pablo Larraín, an inspector hunts down Nobel Prize–winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country for joining the Communist Party. Part fact, part fiction, the film stars Gael García Bernal and Luis Gnecco.

"I am made of earth and with words I sing." Ilan Stavans, editor of All the Odes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), reads a poem by Pablo Neruda in English and Spanish.

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Watch this ethereal visual interpretation and sober reading of Pablo Neruda’s poem “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines.”

The short film "The Me Bird" is a visual interpretation of Neruda's poem of the same name, which ends: "That's why I come and go, / fly and don't fly but sing: / I am the furious bird / of the calm storm." 18bis, the graphics studion in Rio de Janeiro that created the film, explains the imagery: "The frames depicted as jail and the past as a burden serve as the background for the story of a ballerina on a journey towards freedom. A diversified artistic experimentation recreates the tempest that connects bird and dancer."