Poets & Writers Theater

Watch the video for musician Andrew Bird’s interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” a duet with Phoebe Bridgers included in his album Inside Problems. Of the poem, Bird says, “I came across this Emily Dickinson poem and found it to be the most vivid description of an inner world I’ve ever encountered.”

This music video for “White Flag,” a song from electronic music duo Delta Heavy’s album Paradise Lost, named after John Milton’s epic poem, features a video game themed retelling of the poem. In an interview in Kill Screen, director Najeeb Tarazi says of the video, “I wanted to try turning the myth of Paradise Lost on its head...”

The album Lonely Avenue, a collaboration between musician Ben Folds and writer Nick Hornby, will be released by Nonesuch Records on September 28. Folds and Hornby will perform at an event presented by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, D.C., on October 19.