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Watch videos; listen to audio clips, including readings by authors featured in Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin; and view slideshows related to articles and features published in Poets & Writers Magazine. 

Lit Crawl: Video Postcard From New York City

Scenes from the second-annual Lit Crawl NYC on May 13: Cofounder Todd Zuniga talks about why the event is important; two BOMB-aoke! performers act out an interview between artists Kiki Smith and Chuck Close; author Tao Lin discusses the fine art of...

Small Press Point Erasures

Matthew Gallant, an English teacher at Timberlane Regional High School in Plaistow, New Hampshire, wrote to us just before the new year with a story of how he struggled to get his students to do something constructive during the two days before...

A poem from Yellowrocket by Todd Boss

Todd Boss reads "How It Must Have Been for Him," a poem from Yellowrocket, published by Norton in November. Boss is one of twelve poets featured in "First and Foremost" (January/February 2009), our fourth annual roundup of debut poets.  

Richard Baker's Book Portraits

As more readers choose a nifty gadget like the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader over a hefty new hardcover; a simple e-mail from a subscription service like DailyLit over a letterpress chapbook; or a flashy iPhone application such as Stanza over...

Literary Myanmar

Despite its poverty and dispiriting censorship, Myanmar is a highly literate country. Last spring freelance writer Stephen Morison Jr. traveled to Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, to visit its many bookstores and interview some of the local...

Writing Spaces

We asked readers to submit photos of their writing spaces. The creative habitats captured in these images reflect each writer's unique approach to finding inspiration, motivation, and focus.  

The Novels of David Rhodes

A bibliography of David Rhodes, the author of four novels, including Driftless, published this month by Milkweed Editions.

A Letter at a Time: Adastra Press

Behind the scenes at Adastra Press, where Gary Metras has steadfastly produced hand-sewn, letterpress-printed poetry chapbooks for nearly three decades.

The Road to Wonewoc

A series of photographs taken alongside the rural thoroughfares leading to Wonewoc, the small town in Wisconsin where novelist David Rhodes lives with his wife, Edna.

Poet Valzhyna Mort: An American Debut

Follow our cover subject, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort, on her recent trip to New York City. From a Ukranian diner in the East Village to a conference hall in midtown, Mort shares her poetry and talks about the language and people that inspire...

Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of Writers at Work

Mondays at Skimmilk: 30 Years of Writers at Work, a documentary film directed by Ken Browne, is being aired on public television stations across the country during National Poetry Month. The half-hour film tells the story of late New...

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