Poets & Writers Theater

“I should have turned out normal, but I didn’t. What happened?” Watch the book trailer for Kevin Maloney’s second novel, The Red-Headed Pilgrim (Two Dollar Radio, 2023), which is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Poet and essayist Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib reads his poem “When I Say That Loving Me Is Kind of Like Being a Chicago Bulls Fan” from his debut poetry collection, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press, 2016), at the Sheen Center in New York. His debut essay collection, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), uses music and culture as a lens to view the world.

In this video, Challis Popkey speaks with author Sarah Gerard about her novel, Binary Star (Two Dollar Radio, 2015), and her first essay collection, Sunshine State (Harper Perennial, 2017). Gerard’s debut essay collection is featured in Page One of the May/June 2017 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“In the book, I talk a lot about old folklore and old legends, but I also want to capture what’s happening now...” In this video interview, filmmaker, visual artist, and musician J. D. Wilkes speaks about the origins of his debut novel, The Vine That Ate the South (Two Dollar Radio, 2017).

Joshua Mohr reads from his novel All This Life (Soft Skull Press, 2015) and talks about the need for artists and publishers to transgress against cultures of homogeneity. Mohr's debut memoir, Sirens (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“Driving on acid is underrated.” Joshua Mohr reads from his debut memoir, Sirens (Two Dollar Radio, 2017), which is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

"The idea of The Removals being both a physical and a spiritual or psychological removal really haunted me and intrigued me." Writer and director Nicholas Rombes speaks about an old manuscript by a Puritan woman from the 1680s, which inspired his new film, The Removals, the second feature film produced by Two Dollar Radio. Rombes is the author of the novel, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing (Two Dollar Radio, 2014).

Author, dancer, and scholar Barbara Browning plays Iggy Pop’s “The Passenger” on the ukulele for this video to promote Two Dollar Radio’s micro-budget film division.

South African novelist Masande Ntshanga talks about his debut novel, The Reactive (Two Dollar Radio, 2016), for an interview on the SABC News. The novel is featured in Page One in the May/June issue and Ntshanga is a featured author in "First Fiction 2016" in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

"The gunshots that echoed throughout the valley sounded almost patient." Colin Winnette's new novel, Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio, 2015), featured in Page One in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, is a contemporary western about two murderous brothers.

Eric Obenauf and Eliza-Wood Obenauf talk informally about the origin of Two Dollar Radio, the small press they founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 2005. Or was it 2004?