Selected Video Features
'24-'25 THE LIFE OF A POET SERIES HOSTED BY KYLE DARGAN

Featuring writers CAMONGHNE FELIX, KAI COGGIN.
'23-'24 THE LIFE OF A POET SERIES HOSTED BY KYLE DARGAN

Featuring writers ELIZABETH ALEXANDER, SANDRA BEASLEY, ADRIAN MATEJKA, and REGIE CABICO.
SHANE MCCRAE IN CONVERSATION W/ KYLE DARGAN FOR THE MEMOIR PULLING THE CHARIOT OF THE SUN

"Watch author Shane McCrae's reading and book talk with Kyle Dargan at Politics and Prose book store in Washington, D.C."
JANELLE MONÁE, ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON & YOHANCA DELGADO INTERVIEWED BY KYLE DARGAN AT THE NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL

​A Main Stage conversation featuring Janelle Monae, Alaya Dawn Johnson and Yohanca Delgado in conversation with Kyle Dargan about their collaborative sci-fi collection THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN.
JULIA IVERSON'S ANIMATED ADAPTATION OF "THE ROBOTS ARE COMING" BY KYLE DARGAN

As part of a collaboration between The Cave Cavem Foundation and MotionPoems, graphic artist Julia Iverson created an animated film adaptation of my poem "The Robots Are Coming" for MotionPoems 2016 season of new films.
MONICA FERRELL & KYLE DARGAN @ THE NEW SCHOOL

Launched in 2008, Poets on Craft features award-winning poets in the early-to-middle stages of their careers. Poets meet in moderated conversation, discussing aesthetics, the role of the contemporary poet and other topical issues. Brief readings precede conversations; Q & A and book signings follow.
SANDRA BEASLEY & KYLE DARGAN @ POLITICS & PROSE

A poetry reading by two exciting and accomplished area poets. Beasley is the author of a memoir, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl, and two award-winning poetry collections, Theories of Falling and I Was the Jukebox. Her third book of poems, Count the Waves, is an exhilarating combination of lyricism and whimsy as she looks at love and love’s instruments. Dargan, American University writing professor, editor of POST NO ILLS magazine, and author of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winning The Listening, has reimagined elegy as self-portrait in his fourth collection, Honest Engine, which commemorates recent losses of family members and friends and locates meaning in “a third realm—not of bodies or souls / but the miscellany of life sketched / along the interiors of our skulls.”
FURIOUS FLOWER POETRY CENTER (May 2015)

In this three-part interview conducted by The Fight & the Fiddle editor Elizabeth Hoover, Kyle Dargan discusses limits to poetry’s political efficacy, hip-hop’s influence on him, and how his poetry has changed as he enters his thirties.

See more at: http://www.jmu.edu/stories/fightandfiddle/2015/interview-kyle-dargan.shtml#sthash.l12etkI7.dpuf
FURIOUS FLOWER PRESENTS KYLE DARGAN (May 2015)
WASHINGTON POST (January 12, 2012)

DEATH OF POETRY? NOT IN D.C.
"American University assistant professor Kyle Dargan discusses the strong literary community in Washington and talks about the relationship between poetry and government."
TEDx ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (April 21, 2013)


RESISTING THE INWARD SPIRAL
Writer and educator Kyle Dargan speaking on the role creative writing ("creative communication") can play in foregrounding our humanity in this digital and social media age.


TEDxDESA Website: https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/7601
BILL MOYERS & CO. (April 5, 2013)

POET KYLE DARGAN ON THE AFFLUENCE AND AUSTERITY OF D.C.
"Poet Kyle Dargan reads from his work and talks about poetry’s potential to help readers look at the world differently. Dargan, 32, regularly commutes from his home in southeast Washington, D.C., which has high unemployment and poverty, to the much more affluent area around American University, where he teaches literature."
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (June 7, 2012)

LITERARY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: GWENDOLYN BROOKS
"Poets Kyle Dargan and Janice Harrington celebrate the birthday of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks by reading selections from her work and discussing her influence on their own writing."