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'm a native Tennessean. I know what it is / to be free. I am singing the country blues. I / am whittling a wooden doll. I am / underground mining coal.” Nikki Giovanni reads a selection of her poems and speaks about her book Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (HarperCollins, 2013) for the Salon@615 series at the Nashville Public Library.
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“And if you can’t keep secrets from your family, who can you keep secrets from?” In this video, Jonathan Safran Foer reads excerpts from his novel Here I Am (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) at Salon@615 in Nashville.
Tags: Fiction | Jonathan Safran Foer | Here I Am | Salon@615 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2016 | reading -
“A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away and it is one part rapture.” Barbara Kingsolver reads from her novel Flight Behavior (Harper, 2012) and answers questions from the audience for an event presented by Salon@615 at the Nashville Public Library.
Tags: Harper | 2012 | Flight Behavior | Salon@615 | Nashville Public Library | Barbara Kingsolver | Fiction
