Poets & Writers Theater

In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers features editor India Lena González introduces the 2024 cohort of “5 Over 50” debut authors: Suzette Mullen, author of The Only Way Through Is Out (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024); Dorsía Smith Silva, author of In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry Press, 2024); Uchenna Awoke, author of The Liquid Eye of a Moon (Catapult, 2024); Parul Kapur, author of Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, 2024); and Deborah Jackson Taffa, author of Whiskey Tender (Harper, 2024).

In this Politics and Prose Bookstore event, Patricia Coral reads from her debut memoir, Women Surrounded by Water (Mad Creek Books, 2024), and talks about the experimental nature of her book in a conversation with Susan Coll. Women Surrounded by Water is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Books Are Magic event, Albert Abonado reads from his second poetry collection, Field Guide for Accidents (Beacon Press, 2024), and discusses Asian American families and the model minority myth in a conversation with Jason Koo. Field Guide for Accidents is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Politics and Prose Bookstore event, André Aciman reads from his memoir Roman Year (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) and talks about the loss he experienced during his adolescence in Rome and how writing has helped him come to terms with his identity in a conversation with Marie Arana. Roman Year is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

“When we die, our souls leave our bodies, / take with them everything they loved.... In Gaza, our bodies and rooms get crushed. / Nothing remains for the soul.” In this Busboys and Poets event, Mosab Abu Toha reads from his collection Forest of Noise (Knopf, 2024), and discusses his recent experiences in Gaza in a conversation with Isra Chaker. An interview with Abu Toha by Destiny O. Birdsong appears in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this episode of the Open Book Broadcast, Suzette Mullen speaks about the publishing process for her debut memoir, The Only Way Through Is Out (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), and why queer voices and stories matter in a conversation with host Ally Berthiaume. Mullen is featured in “5 Over 50: 2024” in the November/December issue in Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Columbia Fiction Foundry event, Parul Kapur reads from her debut novel, Inside the Mirror (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), and discusses how the Partition of India in 1947 informed her story, as well as her work in journalism, criticism, and publishing in a conversation with Tania Moore. Kapur is featured in “5 Over 50: 2024” in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this Institute of Politics Policy and History video, A. B. Spellman joins a panel of poets, historians, and critics for a discussion of his contributions to literature, music, and the Black Arts Movement, and then reads a selection of poems from his new collection, Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this City Lights Live event, Deborah Jackson Taffa reads from and speaks about her debut memoir, Whiskey Tender (Harper, 2024), in a conversation with Dean Rader. Taffa is featured in “5 Over 50: 2024” in the November/December issue in Poets & Writers Magazine.