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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“All lions must lean into something other than a roar,” reads Roger Reeves from his poem “Grendel” included in his new collection, Best Barbarian (Norton, 2022), in this short film directed by Osvaldo Cuevas. Reeves’s collection is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Roger Reeves | Grendel | Best Barbarian | Norton | 2022 | short film | Page One | March/April 2022 -
Poets & Writers Live was at Chicago's Instituto Cervantes on June 20, 2015, for a program featuring Li-Young Lee, Marc Kelly Smith, Kevin Coval, Haki Madhubuti, Roger Reeves, Parneshia Jones, Megan Stielstra, and many other authors, editors, agents, and literary professionals. More information about this and other Poets & Writers Live events can be found at pw.org/live.
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Poet Roger Reeves delivers a craft talk called “The Work of Art in the Age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston” at Poets & Writers Live in Chicago.
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“The Mike Tyson in me sings like a narwhal / Minus the nasally twang of sleeping in a cold ocean.” Roger Reeves reads a poem from his book, King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), at the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series in April 2014.