Poets & Writers Theater

In this Green Apple Books event, Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Root Fractures (Scribner, 2024), and Cindy Juyoung Ok, author of Ward Toward (Yale University Press, 2024), read from their poetry collections and join Aracelis Girmay for a conversation. Ok is featured in an installation of our Ten Questions series and Nguyen’s Root Fractures is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, director of Yale University Press John Donatich speaks with author and historian Ned Blackhawk about his book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, for which he won the 2023 National Book Award in nonfiction.

In this Asian American Writers’ Workshop video, Yanyi celebrates the launch of his debut collection, The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press, 2019), with readings by poets Wo Chan, Erica Hunt, and Monica Youn. Yanyi is featured in “Poetic Lenses: Our Fifteenth Annual Look at Debut Poetry” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this video, filmed by Lowe Campbell Ewald for the 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Airea D. Matthews discusses her love for Detroit and reads from her poem “Wisdom.” Matthews is the author of Simulacra (Yale University Press, 2017) and is featured in “The Whole Self: Our Thirteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets” in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

"We can tell more complex stories about ourselves by considering the vision of those who are different from ourselves." John Donatich, Director of Yale University Press, speaks about the Margellos World Republic of Letters which aims to publish works of literature in need of translation.

Clive James speaks with BBC News about living with a terminal illness and reads from his new poetry collection, Sentenced to Life (Picador, 2015). An essay collection by James, Latest Readings, will be published by Yale University Press in June.

"You have speakers engaged with everything from the purple gonads of moon jellyfish to ancient Egyptian burial rights," says poet and molecular biologist Katherine Larson about her collection Radial Symmetry, winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets, in this recent profile on the PBS NewsHour.