Poets & Writers Theater

"If you can dream—and not make dreams your master / If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim." This short film features Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," read by Tom O'Bedlam and filmed by Stephen Lister.

Charles Bukowski's poem "Roll the Dice" is the inspiration for this film by Willem Martinot. Read by Tom O'Bedlam and set to music by Tony Anderson, the poem serves as a reminder that if something is important to us, it is worth going all the way.

In this video, Tom O'Bedlam captures the beautiful loneliness of snow through his interpretation of "The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens.

“We must love one another or die.” In this poignant video, Tom O’Bedlam reads W. H. Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939.” The compelling visual imagery of our shared planet, captured by the International Space Station, underscores the power of poetry to transcend both distance and time.

“What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.” Listen to a reading of “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart,” by poet Jack Gilbert, who died on Tuesday in Berkeley, California, at the age of eighty-seven. His Collected Poems was published by Knopf in March.